COMPASS

Spotlight on The High School

Poughkeepsie Day School 2015

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Our Partners Make: Makezine COMPASS Josie Holford, Head of School 2015 2015–2016 Board of Trustees Amanda Thornton, President Sharlene Oyagi, Vice President Contents Kim Roellke, Secretary Johan Hedlund, Treasurer From the Head of School & Board President 2 Christine Agro Lois Bailey The High School 3 Bronwyn Bevan Valery Einhorn Daniel Fisherman PDS Pathways: 81 Years 14 Mary Gesek Katie Green Noteworthy 18 Elizabeth Gundeck Sue Hart Ian Landsman Professional Development 26 Mark Stapylton

Ex Officio Commencement 30 Josie Holford, Head of School Andrea Parent-Tibbetts, CFO Class of 2015 32 Emeriti Freny Dalal Institutional Advancement 36 Patrick Gilheany Alexander Reese Thanking our Donors & Volunteers 38 Poughkeepsie Day School 260 Boardman Road Poughkeepsie, NY 12603 845.462.7600

On the cover Kate McKeon ’17 and Matt Warren ’18 sorting and counting an invasive species of shrimp for use in fish feeding experiments, part of a collaborative research project between Poughkeepsie Day School, Ithaca College, Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Photographers: Laura Graceffa, Johan Hedlund, Josie Holford, Keith Hudak, Stan Lichens, Christina Powers

Thank you to all of the faculty and staff who contributed photos.

1 From the Head of School & Board President

A responsive school for a changing world With children’s developmental needs as a foundation, some decisions become a little easier. Take the use of technology as an In a time of unrelenting change, some good and some not so example. At PDS we embrace digital tools that help children as much, it helps to have a focus. And a filter to sift what must creative thinkers and doers, technology that fosters creativity and endure from that which can – and maybe should – change with personal expression. We eschew technology as an efficient means the times. This is something Poughkeepsie Day School has been to keep learners on task and measure their incremental steps good at for over 80 years. through predetermined formulas. For us it’s not about raising test scores; it’s about lifting learning with the tools that can help eager Making choices starts with bedrock values. Primary among them learners create, connect and communicate. is paying careful attention to the social and emotional needs of children. For PDS this means caring for the whole child who Our abiding values reside in our conception of what makes us arrives in school full of questions and curiosity and who graduates human. It is about community and caring to make a difference. It’s with an undiminished thirst for learning, eager to continue about relationships, problem solving and thinking forward with growing as a productive member of the wider community. That is optimism and courage. The changing world is full of challenges; how we measure our success. they may change in scope and nature, but they’re not going away any time soon. We’ve been studying how to address the needs of 21st-century learners for at least 30 years now. It used to be easier to figure out The PDS response to a changing and challenging world is to provide what might be the best thing for the learners in our classrooms; children with the very best environment for their development as you could predict the future with at least a degree of certainty. As people who have the strength of character, the social-emotional we worked with children in school, especially high school, it was resilience, the skills and the experience to make a creative relatively easy to imagine the skills and aptitudes that would help contribution. How we accomplish this may change – as it must – prepare them academically for success. It’s not always so easy over decades and even from year to year, moment to moment. But these days. our focus endures. It guides us in the journey we are on.

Thriving in our time will take much more than performing well We focus on what will help children grow into their futures: active on tests, stockpiling grades and earning degrees. It will require learning, problem seeking, making across the curriculum and sophisticated competencies far more than paper credentials. participating in the world. Take a look at the exciting future-focused And it is clear that PDS is positioned to get that transition right. learning described in this edition of Compass. The globally networked technologies of our time demand a re- dedication to the progressive ideas and thinking of an earlier generation of pioneer educators, one of whom was PDS founding Amanda Thornton, President, Board of Trustees director Elizabeth Gilkeson.

Josie Holford, Head of School

2 The High School

How do students learn in an era of rapid and radical change? What is the teacher’s role in an age when all the information students need is available on a device in their pockets?

PDS high school teachers and students answer these questions every day with joy, creativity and intellectual risk-taking, in classrooms filled with authentic and relevant learning, collaboration and contagious passion. The high school program prepares PDS students to tackle the unknown with courage and confi- dence, able to make a creative contribution to the world. Many of them are al- ready doing just that.

3 Science

Since his days as a doctoral student at Cornell University, high school This past summer, the group spent an “immersion” week at HWS working on science teacher Brent Boscarino has been obsessed with invasive various components of their funded research. In addition to the citizen science species. “Invasive species present an interesting challenge. What special work, they conducted fish feeding experiments to determine the rates at which characteristics enable them to succeed in a new environment and what is both native and other established fish species feed on Hemimysis. SCUBA their likely impact on native species?” videography was also utilized to observe Hemimysis behavior and habitat selection in the field. In the spring of 2016, the group will also dive headlong The students in Brent’s Invasive Species Research Club are engaged in an into developing environmental DNA, or eDNA, probes for use in early detection intensive study of Hemimysis anomala, a tiny but voracious and fast-breeding of Hemimysis. “Every species on the planet has a unique DNA signature. We will species of bloody red shrimp (named for their reddish color) that has invaded be looking for Hemimysis mitochondrial DNA in water samples taken from areas many of New York State’s waterways. Brent crafted this project as an authentic at risk of invasion. The ability to detect Hemimysis with a simple water sample science experience for his students, who are currently working in collaboration would be a game changer for citizen science monitoring work.” with undergraduates and faculty from Ithaca College and Hobart and William Smith Colleges (HWS). Brent’s collaborative research approach included inviting his students to engage in field survey work that led to a 2014 peer-reviewed publication on the range expansion of Hemimysis throughout the Great Lakes region towards the Hudson River.

Building on their previous findings, the students began developing a citizen science campaign to track the expansion of Hemimysis through New York State. When they needed money to implement their plan, they did what most scientists do: They wrote a grant proposal to fund their research, and it was accepted by the Great Lakes Research Consortium – one of only three proposals in North America to be funded! With additional funding from the PDS Annual Fund, the group was able to design and construct budget- friendly “shrimp traps,” along with educational brochures, to distribute to the public to monitor and track the Science student Ellie Stapylton ’16 says the project was “an amazing opportunity spread of the species. As part of this to do some real research work at a higher college level and beyond,” bringing citizen science project, the group will together students and faculty from all levels. “High school freshmen to graduated also be creating a centralized online seniors to professors at research colleges – we all brought great energy and an database for public reporting of future even greater work ethic to the table in a unique and collaborative way.” Hemimysis sightings

4 While most of us may not Through the Energetic Ray Global Observatory (ERGO) Project, Jonathan’s have heard of cosmic rays astronomy class (and middle school student Nachman Kaul-Seidman ’2020) is or zircon crystals, science part of a worldwide student and scientist collaboration to study and conduct instructor Jonathan Heiles has experiments on cosmic rays – energetic, charged particles traveling from space students pondering them on at nearly the speed of light. The students have fabricated an ERGO-supplied unit, a deep level. He has arranged which represents a single “pixel” in an enormous “camera,” a giant telescope that with the New York Center for captures cosmic rays rather than visual images. With the help of the ERGO unit, Astrobiology, Energetic Ray PDS students collect and analyze the energy patterns of rays in real time. The Global Observatory and NASA’s collected data is layered by the students in Google Earth to identify geographical Radio Jove project to allow his relationships with data collected from student-run ERGO units across the world, students to test their ideas and in the process has raised the bar for teaching high from Bulgaria and India to Venezuela, Canada and the United States. They create school science. a “map” of cosmic patterns that may ultimately reveal whether, somewhere in outer space, other beings are using rays to try to communicate. This project For three summers (2012–2014), Jonathan has attended the Astrobiology connects students with astro- and nuclear physics, astronomy, electronics, Teachers Academy at the New York Center for Astrobiology, a NASA-supported mathematics and cosmology, as well as SETI (the Search of Extraterrestrial research center in the School of Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Intelligence). Jonathan’s Relativistic and Quantum Theory class will also use the in Troy, NY. His goal is to raise student excitement about a field of study that ERGO unit to devise experiments exploring the speed of light. examines the origin, evolution and future of life in our universe. Traveling to RPI’s Corman Center for Mass Spectrometry, Jonathan’s students study materials Throughout our galaxy, charged particles are flying through space and found on Earth with their gaze upon distant stars and orbiting planets. The class interacting with the galactic magnetic field. The energy created by charged works in the same lab where pioneering geochemist Bruce Watson conducted particles moving in Jupiter's magnetic field generates radio waves. Jonathan’s groundbreaking experiments, that determined our assumptions of early Earth astrophysics class is going to be “listening” to Jupiter’s radio waves as they and its atmosphere are entirely wrong. By measuring impurities in Earth’s oldest capture noise emissions with a decametric (radio) telescope supplied as a known material, zircon crystals, Watson accessed the earliest part of our planet’s kit by NASA’s Radio Jove project. The class began last spring to build the history and discovered new information about Earth’s atmosphere. The class telescope’s receiver, which involved soldering 100 components in the PDS fab receives support from Watson and microanalytical lab manager Jared Singer lab. In addition to gaining soldering skills, the students learn basic electricity

“This project was an amazing opportunity to do some real research work at a higher college level and beyond.”

and practical electronics, including identification and function of electronic components such as resistors, capacitors, inductors, transistors and integrated circuits. They will complete the antenna this fall.

Using the radio telescope on campus will provide an avenue for expanding the students’ understanding of the universe as they observe interactions that cannot be seen in visible light. They will view radio bursts from Jupiter and the sun on a computer running Radio-SkyPipe software. This program will generate a strip-chart representation of the data collected by the students and will allow them to view other observers’ records via the Internet, share their records in real time over the Internet, and chat with other Jove observers and in designing a variation on Watson’s experiments. Students grow water-soluble professional radio astronomers. The Radio Jove project is a hands-on way of alum crystals at a range of temperatures and introduce iron impurities into them, teaching physics – the formation of planetary magnetic fields, atomic energy then measure the levels of impurities first by using a laser to vaporize the parts levels and ionization, the movement and acceleration of charged particles in of the crystal. The vapors are then sent through the mass spectrometer, which magnetic fields and the generation of electromagnetic waves. produces charged particles from the substances and measures the mass of the particles through electric and magnetic fields. Their goal is to calibrate the crystals by correlating the level of iron impurity to the temperature of formation of the crystal. The students’ analytical techniques on the water-soluble materials will be applied by Watson in his future scientific work and their data will be a contribution to his team.

5 Math

Math instruction at PDS is light years away from the old model of learning a 1970s PDS graduate who returned in 1982 to teach. “My experience as a through memorization. PDS has always known what Jo Boaler, professor student here transformed how I viewed learning. I was a good student in public of mathematics education at Stanford University, is promoting in math school; however, it was a big awakening when I got here and people asked, education reform and what Carol Dweck, professor of psychology at ‘What do you think?’ It was the first time I was given open-ended projects.” Stanford, writes about the growth mindset. The ability to perform math is not fixed; it can be developed through dedication and hard work. Math is not Barbara has continued the tradition of assigning open-ended projects. about memorization. Ever. Students are challenged to design a weight-bearing 2” x 12” bridge and build it out of toothpicks. When the students are engaged in a design-thinking Barbara Wood ’78, math department chair and longtime PDS teacher, puts it process, they shift from linear problem-solving to a focus on problem-seeking, this way: “It is about thinking deeply and looking for connections. Kids don’t understanding, creating, thinking and doing. By testing their bridge prototypes, say, ‘When are we ever going to use this?’ It is not about that, but about using students continue to learn and improve on their initial ideas. The building math to view the world.” challenge is an authentic assessment that draws on higher order thinking skills and creativity. The most successful bridge can hold 120 pounds! Barbara invites her students, especially those for whom manipulating x and y comes easily, to develop a deeper math focus, to move fluidly from thinking Through project-based learning, students in Barbara’s analytic geometry verbally to writing symbolically and creating graphical representations. class solve a parabolic equation by actually building a parabolic reflector Her students learn to use multiple methods of accessing and representing dish. As part of the exercise, they study parabolic arches formed by balls in a knowledge, a valuable tool for the 21st century. PDS has long practiced an juggling pattern. Juggling is not just fun; it is also ripe with repeating patterns approach to math that reflects today’s latest thinking in math education. “Do and interweaving paths that call out to be understood mathematically. Even you drill the facts?” asks Barbara. “No, you ask kids to understand the way a Rubik’s cube has its place in Barbara’s classroom. “It’s a nice model of an math works and what math thinking is.” algebraic system. It has inverse operations that follow certain principles.”

A result of Barbara’s approach to teaching is that many students are taking In addition to open-ended projects, her students enjoy open-ended thinking multivariable calculus before they leave high school. “It is a real pleasure problems. In her Continuum vs. Discrete class, they are asked to explain how to see kids grapple with to add one to infinity through the use of paradoxical situations. One example heady concepts in math,” describes a hotel with an infinite number of rooms that are full. How can a she says, pointing out that newly arrived traveler in need of a room be accommodated? (The answer can the class is a culmination of be found at the bottom of page 47.) their previous coursework. “They are able to deal Math teacher Li Pipman Denaut enjoys the challenge of the unknown. Her with 3-D objects and 3-D Argentinian family migrated from Israel to the United States with the intent of motion and have a way to staying for a year. Much to her surprise, they ended up staying permanently. mathematically talk The experience taught the family to be resourceful. “I grew up with the about them.” concept that you don’t buy anything unless you absolutely have to,” she says. “I want them to love learning. I want them to be inquisitive. I want them to have a passion for stepping into “Never hire anyone if you can learn to fix it yourself. I built a whole house that the unknown. To use what they know. These are critical life skills and I am using math to help them learn and This method of instruction way as a young adult.” do those things.” – Barbara comes naturally to Barbara,

6 In college Li took her first formal art class and discovered a passion for based on a sports model with an ironic twist. In each game, teams are paired making things. She became an original do-it-yourselfer with a flair for and form alliances during the competition. However, those allies could later upcycling. “I have issues about getting rid of something that can still be used become opponents. or that someone else could use.” The novice team placed sixth in their first year of competition. However, She brings her enthusiasm for making things to PDS where she develops their accomplishment was not without a setback. The documentation and teaches courses that make use of upcycled materials. For example, a of the “build” season in their engineer’s notebook was not quite what 15-year obsession with stained glass, sparked by the need to create a window the judges were looking for. Capitalizing on their mistake as a lesson in covering in her home, became a popular class at PDS. The sun streams agility and adaptability, they used the notebook to reflect on the value of through a product of their work that hangs in the entrance to the Elizabeth A. the engineering process, improve their strategies and demonstrate the Gilkeson Center. Students in her theater tech class work with her to build sets challenges they had overcome over the course of the year. Their effort paid for the theater arts program. off with marked improvement. In their second year, the team placed One of Li’s favorite artistic experiments is a learner-centered building and third for their engineer’s notebook. design course she developed. “The course content is whatever the kids want to learn about and build.” When the physical education department needed a gaga court (for a version of dodgeball with a foam ball), the class built it. Racks to hold baseball and softball bats? They built it. A possession arrow for basketball games? Well, they are still building that one. What the students learn from Li will long outlast the products they make. She believes that sometimes one needs to be a persistent explorer and a confident risk-taker. Instead of settling on a less than satisfactory outcome, Li encourages her students to redesign a concept. “I don’t know everything, but I expect to. If we don’t know, we will Google it and we will learn together,” she says.

Li’s experience with building and design naturally led to coaching the robotics team. “I didn’t begin with a strong grasp of physics and mechanics, but I work with the kids to test and test until we have a solution.” In preparation for the FIRST Tech Challenge, the team worked together to design, build and program their robot using sound engineering principles and real-world math and science concepts. The robotics tournaments are

“I want them to love learning. I want them to be inquisitive. I want them to have a passion for stepping into the unknown. To use what they know. These are critical life skills and I am using math to help them learn and do those things.” – Barbara

7 Art

Art instructor Wayne Toepp’s students are earning acceptance at such Serious art students like Tianyi and Nicole pursue portfolio development prestigious schools as The Cooper Union, University of the Arts Central Saint with an aim to submitting their work to college programs. “The goals are Martins (London, UK), Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Pratt Institute, extremely individuated," says Wayne. “I provide students the opportunity Maryland Institute College of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. He says, to build a body of work that represents them, unlike many high school art “I am often amazed and humbled by their talent and this is a reason I have programs, which are often cookie-cutter.” The high level of thinking, risk- stayed here teaching.” taking and mastery over media is evident in the many displays of student work around campus. Curiosity, imagination, critical thinking and problem solving are qualities PDS graduates will need for success in an unpredictable job market. Studio Students explore the exciting interchange between art and culture through art courses are designed to develop these skills. Hands-on exploration stimulating classes in art history. Wayne’s Cinema History course is a allows students to recognize the relationship between thinking and making: doorway into the arts for students who may be less comfortable with understanding that art production is concept-driven and a way of making producing art. “So many kids love film and have exposure to current film,” ideas manifest in visual form. Wayne describes the studio courses as he says. “Students are taught to look more closely than they normally would “designed to have latitude in terms of skill level and familiarity with a set of when watching a movie.” Learning to interpret film enables them to be restrictions and requirements, so there are lots of directions kids can take.” visually literate, an important communication skill in the digital age. The visual art curriculum engages students in the production and critical Of all the classes taught at PDS, it is within the art department that the boundaries of the classroom extend the farthest. The Renaissance to Baroque art history class travels bi-annually to Florence to experience the paintings, sculpture and architecture of Brunelleschi, Fra Angelico, Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci. This trip exemplifies PDS’s emphasis on the student as active, self-directed learner, not as passive recipient of teacher-delivered lessons. It is the difference between “education” – what institutions do – and learning, which is what people do. It is not just about seeing firsthand the analysis of works of art as an iteration of larger issues and topics. Tianyi Yu brushstrokes of Titian’s handiwork, ’15, an architecture major at RISD, used art and writing to explore why in but about learning to feel at home China money is set aside for cosmetic eye surgery before education. Nicole in the world while exploring Yan ’16 created a visual commentary about luxury goods and consumerism Florence’s streets and landmarks, with remarkable replicas of designer handbags. language and cuisine.

At PDS, the arts are not peripheral luxuries added to the curriculum. Instead, arts are given center stage where they jumpstart creativity, excite the imagination and promote intellectual well-being and cognitive growth. 8 English & Poetry

Exploring new places for the adventure of an unexpected discovery is a Students develop critical abilities and standards of judgment as they read theme in Joshua Camp Brown’s English classes. As a writer-in-residence for with increasing analytic skill,” Don explains. “I am not as interested in theory a year at Phillips Exeter Academy, he was never disappointed on his daily as I am in having my students be good readers and use their abilities to make expeditions of the library. In this spirit, Josh’s poetry class joined students inferences in the text. I want them to learn to trust their own judgments, and in Don Fried’s Documenting Lives course on a trip to the New York Public not to think someone else is the expert.” Library and the Museum of Modern Art. At the Museum of Modern Art the classes viewed One-Way Ticket, Jacob Lawrence’s 1941 Migration Series. Don’s classes master more than the mechanics of writing, grammar, usage and “The show,” says Josh, “is made up of paintings, each a smaller part of a documentation of critical points. His classes give students something waning larger narrative. That is what I think poetry is in essence, a smaller snapshot from our society: face-to-face dialogue. Participation in seminar-style discussions, of a greater emotion.” with comments that reflect careful reading of the texts and respect for the opinions of others, is an essential requirement of every course. Selected literature In poetry workshops Josh brings his students on an expedition of different provides the story of human relationships; discourse on those interactions genres and along the way they share their discoveries with him. With Josh strengthens the sense of belonging and community within the classroom.

Assessment at PDS is based on the student’s growth and is seen as a conversation about new horizons for learning. Through Don Fried’s written responses, in small-group work with other students and in regular conferences with him, students assess the strengths of their work and develop portfolios.

as co-pilot, they engage in reading, writing, performing and responding to Don, who retired in June, published and peer works of poetry. Each student has an authentic voice in a describes his seminar classes as larger narrative on poetry, snippets of which find their way onto a blog curated very informal. “Literature is about by the class. life, so even when the discussion seems to veer off, there is a The joy of reading poetry is connected to the learning and effort involved in certain kind of relevance.” writing it. A published poet himself, Josh prepares his students to submit their own work for publication by asking each of them to create a portfolio of writing that he reviews with delight. “The writing is as good as any literary magazine. I enjoy their poems as much as Shakespeare’s.”

Developing a voice of one’s own as a writer is the focus of Don Fried’s English classes. “I want my students to be increasingly aware of what they can do with language and how language works,” he says. “We talk about imagery in a poem or prose and how to put words together to have the desired impact. I work to dispel from the minds of kids that people who write books are a different group of people. Anyone can be a writer.”

9 History

The connected learning between English and history has dismantled the answer important questions about American systems. For example, what old model of education in which academic disciplines exist in separate silos. are Americans doing, or not doing, to support democracy? How does a While personal story is woven through English, the human story of the world depressed economy influence the actions of people whereby they allow their is the theme of history classes at PDS. The holistic history program integrates fundamental rights to be usurped by others? anthropology, geography and philosophy to produce a fuller analysis of the human condition across time and space. Bernadette encourages students to explain concepts and events in multiple forms, to move beyond merely knowing facts and dates to positing solutions. History courses are crafted by instructors and students together. For example, They study the Arab Spring and the subsequent loss of democracy in the current offerings on political science, comparative government, Irish history Middle East: Can a social movement bring about change? Students decide. and culture, gender and the law and Holocaust and human behavior studies were not prepared unilaterally by the teacher; they stem from student interests and those of history instructor Bernadette Condesso.

“All courses call for well established academic goals – research, analytical writing and public speaking,” says Bernadette. “However, and perhaps more importantly, I seek to have students learn how to question, how to delve deeply into a topic, how to listen for other opinions and how to engage in civil discourse.”

She conducts most of her classes in a student-centered seminar style. “It is about engaging with texts or materials, dissecting them and entering into conversation.” For instance, a discussion of the Weimar Republic is tied to the concept of the fragility of democracy; the underlying goal is understanding the role of the average citizen during the Nazi era and the fall of the Republic. Discussion is rooted in textual analysis and materials regarding the military, In Julie O’Sullivan’s humanities class, students learn that history is not static; employment, the role of women and the Other. Through discussion, links like archeology, it is about finding new information and new perspectives. The between people and events come into focus. humanities program is a combination of history and English, created in response to student preference for a more integrated approach. The four-year curriculum provides a well-rounded foundation Of her courses, Bernadette says, “The focus is on humanism and the proposition that there in early and modern U.S. history, the are moral imperatives in the world. I seek to encourage thoughtful dialogue about these Renaissance and Reformation, 19th- and ideas so that the discourse is about learning, not about debate.” 20th-century European history, as well as global history.

Bernadette asks students to apply their classroom learning to current, real Like archaeologists, students dig into a theme, time period or geographical world problems. Understanding the links between historical and current area to uncover key figures and events through historical documents, essays, events, including case studies coupled with deep research, helps students primary sources and literary works. “By looking at history through a person’s

10 experience, even if fictional, it is easier to get into the drier aspects of history,” Karen’s enthusiasm for an integrated view of history stems partly from her says Julie. In the early U.S. history course, students read Twelve Years a teaching philosophy and from her background as a Ph.D. in geography. An Slave, an 1853 slave narrative memoir by American Solomon Northup. apt example is a unit on imperialism, in which she introduced the concept Students choose two scenes from the book to recount through the eyes of of ecological imperialism. “Most people look at imperialism as cultural and political, which it is, but plants and animals were introduced along with customs and language.” Her students read excerpts from Alfred Crosby’s Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe 900–1900, a treatise on the radical transformation of the New World through the

“When the kids who struggle with writing write something spectacular, and this always happens, it is so amazing for them and for me. Something sparks their interest and they write phenomenally,” says Julie.

related effects of foreign ecology and culture. To illustrate that point, Karen challenged her class to select a few plant specimens from the front lawn of Kenyon and asked them to determine which of them were native species. different characters, an active learning experience, with reading and writing As students shared their data they were astonished to find that not one plant as interconnected processes from which to construct an understanding of was native to this country; all had been introduced at some time in the past. slavery in America. Using literature as a bridge into history, the assignment “They realized that they hadn’t been aware of relevant clues right under their prepares students to conduct research and write an analytical essay on feet, and they recognized what they had been reading about.” The thesis slavery in the U.S. had been demonstrated in front of Kenyon. “It was a great way for students to understand that our modern world is connected with the activities of the

Student engagement and ownership of learning have a high commodity people in the 14th century.” In value at PDS. It is apparent in the tackling of original texts by Shakespeare addition, Karen is pleased to note, and Chaucer. Julie points to student excitement when their research “Since we are not bound by the uncovered a letter by a Civil War soldier, which they used as inspiration for regimen of the Common Core, we writing fictional letters in the voices of people mentioned in the original. “One can take time to do these things student created diary entries in the voices of Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. He so that the essential point is strategically created entries on the same day, so the reader could detect the demonstrated in a memorable and progressive frustration with each other.” meaningful way.”

History teacher Karen Nichols was parking at the new Boardman Road Branch Library when her eye was caught by an outcrop of shale, which she began breaking apart looking for fossils. She never got to the library, but she did find an impression of a brachiopod. Unearthing discoveries in one’s own backyard is the type of learning experience Karen enjoys creating for students in her grade 9 and 10 Modern Human Geography and Culture class.

11 Community Service

Students are invited to view the world through a different lens to identify The school’s motto – “learning, leading, living” – is not just a catchphrase people’s needs. For Julia Roellke ’15, a service trip to Cambodia, where she but a practice brought to life by the students and advisors through lived on a floating village, gave her an awareness of the importance of water. community service. “The kids who have been here for a few years are taking “Raw sewage goes directly into the waterways and there are insufficient the reins and initiating projects for the community because they want to. means of garbage disposal. I was both emotionally and physically struck Community service is part of our culture,” says Dean of High School Karen by this,” says Julia, who came home ill from ingesting contaminated water. Nichols. Throughout the year members of the high school participate in Her experience fueled a growing belief that access to clean water is a service activities ranging from bake sales and student-organized benefit human right. “Every small action can help! So, I began Water Is Life; a club concerts for disaster victims to hours serving in soup kitchens and traveling dedicated to spreading awareness of some of the most pressing issues, in significant numbers to New York City for AIDS WALK NY. The impact of such as drought, pollution and inequitable distribution of water.” Like a true their work is seen in the many drives to collect goods and funds: food and entrepreneur, Julia learned to create solutions and implement them. The toiletries for the Beverly Closs club designed a logo for glass water bottles, which they sold to finance the Food Pantry and the Lunchbox purchase of portable water purifiers for indigent people. Soup Kitchen in Poughkeepsie; life-saving blood for the New Ethan Brown ’16 is passionate about helping strangers improve their York Blood Bank; SAT books housing through Habitat for Humanity. “The best part about working with for underprivileged students; Habitat is that you get to interact with the people who you are actually and a blanket of specially helping,” he says. Wanting to share this rewarding experience with the PDS created knitted squares as well community, Ethan worked with science teacher Brent Boscarino to establish as toys, gifts and decorations a chapter of Habitat for Humanity on campus. to brighten the holiday for

“The kids who have been here for a few years are taking the reins and initiating projects for the community because they want to. Community service is part of our culture,” says Karen.

There is a job for everyone in Habitat for Humanity; not everything is hard residents of the Poughkeepsie Children’s Home. These projects teach manual labor. Ethan was successful in recruiting students to manage students to live a life through actions that value people. organizational tasks, like planning events, as well as for performing manual work at the build sites.

What began as the whisper of an idea has become a set of long-term goals for the PDS Habitat chapter. Ethan would like to participate in more builds, even complete a house, and organize more fundraisers. He hopes to recruit more people at PDS by sharing his excitement about Habitat for Humanity and what it can achieve. “The impact we made is huge. Not only in terms of helping people within the Habitat community, but we have started something really big at PDS.”

The goal is to get kids to think about their passion and how to The Roman 8–day calendar (pictured at top of page), apply that to the world around them. 12 also included an "H/8th" day! High School 8–Day Calendar

If the weft of the PDS learning tapestry is passionate teachers and the Before tackling the new schedule, Barbara spent an intensive week at a responsive curriculum they craft, then its warp is the customized “block” workshop devoted exclusively to innovative scheduling. The result, after scheduling that allows longer classes with a deeper level of inquiry months of discussion and planning by faculty and administration, was a over a rotation period that stretches beyond the seven-day week. With liberating approach to academic time management. “I love its individualized vertical and horizontal time blocks, PDS has moved the philosophical underpinnings of the away from the traditional use of academic time and space, including schedule,” says Barbara. 45-minute classes, to change the quality of student engagement. The “It is creative, research- current school day operates on an eight-day rotating based and supports our schedule incorporating four 80-minute blocks values.” It has allowed for academic study and two PDS to rethink the 30-minute periods for morning way math and activities and club meetings. science are taught. "Not being tied to a sequential The linchpin of the schedule is the track allows students to choose their own vertical block, or “D-day” as it is paths toward more challenging courses and to learn with a affectionately known. On this day, different group of students each time. This disbands the usual classroom three 80-minute blocks are sequenced together hierarchy and gives kids a different view of their abilities in comparison to allow four hours of deep thinking and doing. During vertical with that of the other students.” block, the stage of the James Earl Jones Theater is alive with activity as drama students practice for the upcoming production, heightened Our teachers and students are intersecting at an exciting new frontier discussion is heard in the Holocaust and Human Behavior intensive of education, in response to the rapid transformation of how we live, study (it won’t be interrupted after only 45 minutes), and astrobiology learn and work. Education at PDS has never been traditional. Harnessing students have enough lab time to conduct multiple trials and to change new technologies and research allows us to strengthen our program of hypotheses. Vertical block allows time for students to share their passions engaged learning, critical thinking and creative collaboration. At PDS, through community service and for classes to engage in off-campus education is not delivered pre-packaged; it can’t be if it is to remain learning. They are doing what really interests them, which connects joy relevant for our students and prepare them for success in a changing and learning. Students do not lose focus during the longer periods; instead, Students forget time because Barbara Wood, who spearheaded the design they enter psychologist Mihaly Csíkszentmihályi's “flow,” or of the new schedule, has created an effective means of structuring their state of optimal experience. time. As with many complex restructuring projects, the seeds of the new schedule grew from dissatisfaction with the status quo. “We wanted kids to take math all year, but not to take history and English at the same time world. Our curriculum is crafted according to the interests and strengths because of the depth of reading they are asked to do.” Overall, she says, of our teachers and with sensitivity to their students’ needs. The result is “We wanted fewer transitions during the school day and discretionary a phenomenal array of classes and in-depth, real world experiences more time for high school students to delve deeper into research or consult with often found in college than in high school. The breadth of our curriculum teachers and advisors.” design is a dynamic process of creation, co-creation and re-creation of knowledge between teachers and students. It is what brings learning to life and why our students are able to find a purpose for their passions. The Roman 8–day calendar (pictured at top of page), 13 also included an "H/8th" day! How PDS Impacted My Life: “Profoundly—I learned to love Pathways the chaos and freedom of the old Day School.” Colleges/Universities Attended: Tufts University Nancy Meyer Russell ’47 Fun Fact About Me: “I enjoy writing children's stories about the Current Residence: Center Sandwich, NH old Day School.” Grades Attended at PDS: K–9 Favorite Pastime: Windsurfing Profession: Teaching woodworking How PDS Impacted My Life: “My favorite Christine Frank Krok ’66 activity at PDS was doing shop with Hugh McElheny Current Residence: Brewster, NY and Larry the janitor. Today, I teach woodworking at Grades 1–5 the local Children's Center. I make bowls and boxes on the lathe, fix Grades Attended at PDS: and weave seats for chairs, make baskets and have fun.” Profession: Retired teacher Colleges/Universities Attended: Sarah Lawrence, Vassar How PDS Impacted My Life: “It helped me be a divergent and Goucher colleges thinker.” Fun Fact About Me: I still see PDS classmate Nancy McClelland Colleges/Universities Attended: Elmira College, University and we sing the songs we learned with Hugh McElheny. She of Illinois and University of Bridgeport remembers every word! Fun Fact About Me: “I’m training two therapy dogs.”

William D. Smith ’49 Michael Gold, Ph.D. ’73 Current Residence: Waterville, ME Current Residence: Minneapolis/New York Grades Attended at PDS: Grade 8 Grades Attended at PDS: Pre-K–6, 10–12 Profession: Retired Profession: Organizational culture development How PDS Impacted My Life: “I remember learning many How PDS Impacted My Life: “It kept me searching for the non-academic subjects; working with clay; painting medieval prints next bright moment.” on parchment paper; raising and feeding baby lambs; boarding two Colleges/Universities Attended: Bard College, New lab rats on vacation; father-son baseball games; tapping maple trees England Conservatory of Music and New York University on the property and boiling sap to make syrup; and having good Fun Fact About Me: “I use jazz (live) to provoke, evoke and home-cooked food for lunch each day. invoke change in the minds of people who can make a difference.” Colleges/Universities Attended: Fairleigh Dickinson Favorite Pastime: Being with my family. University Fun Fact About Me: “I’m presently retired with two very successful daughters in the healthcare profession, for which I am very Mike Chapman ’77 proud.” Current Residence: Boston area Favorite Pastime: Limited due to medical conditions, but I like Grades Attended at PDS: K–12 to play on the computer and read. Profession: Television producer/editor How PDS Impacted My Life: “PDS taught Gavrik Losey ’54 me critical thinking, community values and the difference between merely absorbing knowledge and acquiring knowledge.” Current Residence: England Hampshire College Grades Attended at PDS: Grades 3–5 Colleges/Universities Attended: “My cooking skills are pretty limited, but I Profession: Writer Fun Fact About Me: produce and edit a cooking show that's seen in 110 cities!” How PDS Impacted My Life: "It was so long ago it’s hard to I have to pick one?? Impossible! remember. Events like the end of WWII took place while I was at the Favorite Pastime:

school. These have stayed with me." Colleges/Universities Attended: University College Nadra E. Haffar ’77 London Current Residence: Hyrum, UT Fun Fact About Me: “I like to see people interact and Grades Attended at PDS: Grades 9–12 sometimes create situations just to see what will happen.” Profession: Art museum education curator Favorite Pastime: Thinking How PDS Impacted My Life: “Weaving with Hubie formed my artistic expression. Museum visits to the Met with Phillip Yenawine Dan Rubenstein ’60 formed my professional practice.” Current Residence: Canada Colleges/Universities Attended: Earlham College, University of Utah, MICA, Art Institute of Chicago Grades Attended at PDS: Grades 2–8 “Developmentally, I think I'm still in high Profession: Retired Fun Fact About Me: school (at PDS) and wonder why others don't/can't think like I do. 14 Ren Adams ’83 Karali Pitzele ’90 Current Residence: Millbrook, NY Current Residence: Brooklyn, NY Grades Attended at PDS: Grades 9–12 Grades Attended at PDS: Grades 6–10, 12 Profession: Registered nurse Profession: Program director, New Teacher Ctr. How PDS Impacted My Life: “I found out How PDS Impacted My Life: “PDS was an that you may not always have the answer, but you amazing learning community where I was supported in have the power of deduction.” learning and exploring my own unique path.” Colleges/Universities Attended: Pace University and Colleges/Universities Attended: Antioch College, The SUNY New Paltz New School and The NYC Leadership Academy Fun Fact About Me: “I still keep in touch with PDS teachers, and I have students that I myself taught 18 years ago who still keep in Caroline Evarts ’86 touch with me!” Current Residence: Los Alamos, NM Grades Attended at PDS: Grade 11–12

Profession: Mother Erica Priggen Wright ’92 Berkeley, CA How PDS Impacted My Life: “Some Current Residence: of the happiest memories of my life are from PDS. The warmth and Grades Attended at PDS: Grades 10–12 acceptance I found there affected me profoundly. I am not sure I could Profession: Executive producer, film have gone on to have the life I've had if not for my brief years at PDS. How PDS Impacted My Life: “When Socially, as well as academically, PDS supported me and I was able to my mother and I moved out of New York do things I never thought I could do. My personal best is due to PDS.” City and upstate full time, PDS was a huge Colleges/Universities Attended: Earlham College part of that transition. I'm still in touch with dear friends from Fun Fact About Me: “I have many talents, none of which PDS, and consider them to be some of my strongest bonds and I am paid for. This is what I tell the people who ask me if I am a relationships.” ‘professional’ at this, that or the other.” Colleges/Universities Attended: Wesleyan University, Favorite Pastime: Writing and riding – always easy to confuse. B.A. in English; John F Kennedy University, M.A. in Consciousness Studies Fun Fact About Me: “I just finished collaborating with my

John Whelan ’87 husband, Nico Wright, on an art show in San Francisco. I also work Current Residence: Hannover, Germany with Jonah Sachs ’93 at Free Range Studios. “ Grades Attended at PDS: Grades 6–12 Profession: Professor Hillary Harvey ’93 “I always How PDS Impacted My Life: Current Residence: Kingston, NY enjoyed learning, but it was at PDS that I began Grades 11–12 to enjoy school.” Grades Attended at PDS: Colleges/Universities Attended: Profession: Photographer Cornell University and University of California, Santa Barbara How PDS Impacted My Life: “PDS helped me to remember that I love to learn, and Fun Fact About Me: “I'm currently on sabbatical from my the people there supported that curiosity. It was usual position – in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Rochester very different from previous academic experiences I'd had.” Institute of Technology – visiting the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Hannover, Germany. Colleges/Universities Attended: Bennington College I didn't start studying German until I got to college, but Liddie Fun Fact About Me: “I've been married for 15 years to the Christenfeld's Latin and French classes got me off to a good start with second person I met at college – my RA. At Bennington, the RAs were languages. (And I'll forever be grateful to my mother for ‘forcing’ me called House Chairs, and they were the upperclassmen. So it's not all to start Latin in the 7th grade....)” that risqué, but it does make for a shocking sentence.” Favorite Pastime: I'm a total yoga junkie. My most recent personal triumph was lotus position in a headstand! Jen Gall ’90 Current Residence: Beacon, NY Grades Attended at PDS: Grades 11–12 Mika Dashman ’93 Profession: Teacher Current Residence: Brooklyn, NY How PDS Impacted My Life: “I volunteered Grades Attended at PDS: Grades 8–11 in the after-school program, which helped foster my Profession: Attorney/mediator/restorative love of working with children.” justice advocate Colleges/Universities Attended: Mount Saint Mary How PDS Impacted My Life: “PDS allowed me to be myself.” College (master’s) and University of Saint Joseph (undergrad) Colleges/Universities Attended: Sarah Lawrence College and CUNY School of Law 15

during my time at PDS I was exposed to a number of vegetarians and

Lucy Knisley ’03 vegans, but it wasn't until after graduation that I made my personal Current Residence: Chicago, IL transition to a plant-based diet. I can't advocate for it enough!" Grades Attended at PDS: Grade 11–12 Favorite Pastime: Making pictures, both still and moving! Profession: Author/illustrator Hiking with my dogs and making my family vegan food! How PDS Impacted My Life: “PDS was the community that saved me, after spending years in schools that didn't teach to artists. The emphasis on arts education and on teaching to the individual at Rehana Ahmed ’08 PDS was something that shaped who I am and how I spend my life.” Current Residence: Long Island, NY Colleges/Universities Attended: School of the Art Grades Attended at PDS: Grades 9–12 Institute of Chicago (B.F.A. 2007) and The Center for Cartoon Studies Profession: Clinical assistant (M.F.A. 2009) How PDS Impacted My Life: “I gained new perspective and amazing friends.” Tara Waddhwa ’05 Colleges/Universities Attended: Ithaca College and Long Island University Current Residence: New York City

Grades Attended at PDS: Grade 12 Profession: Assistant director, NYU Greg Shaheen ’09 Stern Center for Business and Human Current Residence: Philadelphia, PA Rights Grades Attended at PDS: Grades 11–12 How PDS Impacted My Life: “I forged lifelong friendships, Profession: Medical interpreter and learned to think creatively to problem solve.” How PDS Impacted My Life: “PDS Colleges/Universities Attended: Yale University and New helped me take my education into my own York University hands. I started reading more books and writing Fun Fact About Me: “I was the captain of the varsity women's more. It didn't feel like anyone was imposing squash team at Yale.” anything on me but offering me an opportunity to discover literature, science, history, music, etc., on my own with the support of other curious folks.”

Ella Wise ’06 Colleges/Universities Attended: Wesleyan University Current Residence: Oakland, CA Fun Fact About Me: “Since graduating college, I've been back Grades Attended at PDS: Grades 9–12 and forth between the States and Lebanon. Recently, when I was Profession: City planner coming out of anesthesia after having my wisdom teeth removed, I'm How PDS Impacted My Life: “The school encouraged, told that I started speaking to the nurse about meditation in some sort during a formative time, both a basic curiosity and confidence.” of Arabic/Spanish dialect.” Colleges/Universities Attended: University of North Favorite Pastime: Exploring. Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of California, Berkeley Fun Fact About Me: “I'm looking forward to the 10-year reunion!” Maxwell Hegley ’11 Brooklyn, NY Current Residence: Grades Attended at PDS: Grades 8–12 Casey Knight ’07 Profession: Actor/comedian Current Residence: Los Angeles, CA How PDS Impacted My Life: “This Grades Attended at PDS: Grades 9–12 school helped me find my voice. Before PDS I Profession: Producer/director of films was a schlub, and now I'm a beautiful butterfly. How PDS Impacted My Life: “PDS Colleges/Universities Attended: empowered me to believe that I am not just any one thing. I can Sarah Lawrence College simultaneously be an academic and a freethinker; an advocate and an Fun Fact About Me: “I won the 2015 College Improv National opponent. I learned to be shameless, because as long as what I do is Tournament in Chicago this past spring with Sarah Lawrence's Improv genuine, all risks have some form of payoff. Having the opportunity to group, ‘Feral Christine’!” learn from, and grow beside, so many creative and driven individuals Favorite Pastime: Tech Week for shows at PDS. honed my tireless work ethic. Colleges/Universities Attended: New York University Fun Fact About Me: “I'm a recent Emmy Award-winner for my work on the documentary ‘Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word,’ an hour-long special about transgender teens across America! I was also nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for the same project and won a Telly Award for a different documentary on young, gay athletes. Also,

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Celebrating Don Fried Over 80 alumni showed up to honor Don Fried and bid him a happy retirement!

Memories “As I sat in my English Comprehensive exams for my B.A. in English Literature, I found myself using things I had been taught in high school – by Don. I referenced plays and books I had read with Don, because my understanding of them was serving me five years later; his class was that good. It was an honor to be in his class, even for just two years. It was wonderful, and I always loved his class. His encouragement is still with me today.” Caroline Evarts ’86

“Don's English classes exposed us to literature and also encouraged creativity and experimentation. Rob Handel and I collaborated on several projects that went well beyond the nominal scope (and deadline!) of the original assignment. But what I remember most fondly at the moment is Don's resistance to the metric system. If we let our lives be ruled by logic instead of art, he said, we'd all speak Esperanto and there would be no poetry. Such was his dedication to this principle that he cut four inches off of the meter stick in his classroom to convert it back into a yardstick".John Whelan ’87

“Don was a huge part of the reason I ended up studying English in college. I always remember how much I loved his classes – and his classroom with the big, low table (that Jacob Rosen '92 used to lie underneath during class) was the beginning of my love for unconventional learning spaces and playful irreverence!” Erica Priggen Wright ’92

Lorraine Roberts was a member of the PDS Black Achievers Award, presented by Beulah In Memoriam Board of Trustees from 2003 through 2009 Baptist Church. We extend our heartfelt condolences to the and an astute advisor on a variety of issues, families and friends of the following beloved including diversity. She graduated from PDS alumnus Arthur C. Dutton II attended PDS community members. Hampton University and earned a master's Poughkeepsie Day School in the 1940s before degree from Columbia University. Lorraine entering Yale University where he majored Legendary educator taught in the Arlington and Poughkeepsie in economics, sociology and psychology. Art and former PDS teacher school districts, served as consultant for served in the U.S. Navy as a fighter/bomber Olga Smyth was born the NYS Department of Education and held pilot during the Korean War, left active service in Coché, Venezuela, in leadership positions in 1955 and continued to fly with the U.S. Navy 1913, raised in Trinidad in many organizations. Reserves. Art was president/treasurer of A.C. and came to the United Her many awards/ Dutton Lumber Corporation, founded by his States in 1926. She honors included the grandfather. He loved graduated from Mount Eleanor Roosevelt music and was an avid Holyoke, studied at Bank Street College and Val-Kill Medal Award, community volunteer. earned a master’s at Vassar College. She was a Alexis de Tocqueville creative educator who taught at PDS for many award of the Dutchess years and went on to found and direct High County United Way, Legends of the Hudson Valley School in Clinton Corners, NY. Valley honoree, Catharine Street Community Center MLK breakfast honoree and a 1992 17 with the cleanup and beautification of Kenyon and the Noteworthy surrounding campus. The Environmental Club visited each classroom to launch a school-wide recycling Student Leadership and program. The community was pleased with their Community Service collective accomplishment.

Blood Drive At Poughkeepsie Day School, community service is driven by students, with teachers acting as coaches who let students take the lead. The result is students who are passionate about helping others and take ownership of the projects they initiate. During two blood drives, held on campus on December 17 and April 23, our students showed leadership during each step of Canstruction® JR Hudson Valley the process, from PDS presented the third annual Canstruction® JR Hudson coordinating with Valley at the Poughkeepsie Galleria Mall from January 31 to the New York Blood February 7. Teams from schools across the Hudson Valley – Center to marketing Kildonan, The Randolph School, Poughkeepsie Day School and overseeing the and Oakwood Friends – showcased amazing canned food schedule of blood donors. Our students won the New York sculptures and competed in a public judging of their works, Yankees High School Blood Donor Championship (Hudson all to benefit the hungry in the Hudson Valley. Valley Region) for most blood donations based on class size. They were recognized at a Yankees game on June 17 and Congratulations to PDS grade 6 and their teachers, who were invited on-field to receive a winning banner in front debuted “King Can,” their castle of cans with a motion of the whole stadium. Greatly encouraged by their positive sensitive structure whose right arm moved up and down impact, students Daniella DePaz ’16 and Maya McClatchy when triggered by passersby. Their 1200-can installation ’16 continued their service work outside of school by earned both the Judges Award and the Structural organizing a summer blood drive held at the Poughkeepsie Integrity Award. Galleria in July.

The students and teachers worked hard throughout the Habitat for collaborative experience to solve problems involving Humanity engineering, balance, proportion, symmetry and order Ethan Brown ’16, a while taking action to solve the problem of hunger in their student with a passion local area. All 6,981 cans used in this year’s structures were for helping others, donated to the Food Bank of Hudson Valley. Over the past was instrumental three years (plus one trial run) the in beginning a new Food Bank of Hudson Valley has Habitat for Humanity received 19,234 pounds of food from club at PDS. The H for this event. H club assisted a local chapter in clearing Earth Day a residential lot of Armed with gloves, trash bags and debris in preparation for the building of a new home. They rakes, students in all divisions will continue their work during the fall months as they help celebrated April 22, Earth Day, with the initial phase of the build.

18 Healing Haiti Scholastic Art and Writing Competition Thanks to the passion and The poetry of Elijah Santner ’15 stood out organizational drive of Erica among 25,000 submissions to the Scholastic Enriquez ’15, music teacher Art and Writing Competition and won Damon Banks and the awards, as he joined the ranks of previous musical and artistic talents winners Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote and of PDS high school and Joyce Carol Oates. Elijah submitted seven middle school students, the Healing Haiti benefit music poems at the regional level and all were and art show was a tremendous success. The Vassar Haiti recognized (two gold keys, one silver key, Project received the proceeds from the show, $2,000, for four honorable mentions). As a gold key winner, Elijah the continued rebuilding of the Holy Trinity Music School in moved to the national level where his poem “Rubbing the Port au Prince. Stingers off of Hornets” won a silver medal. He traveled to Carnegie Hall to attend the awards ceremony. Scenic Hudson Benefit Concert New Hamburg American Math Competition Yacht Club was Eight PDS high school students participated in the filled to the Mathematical Association of America American Math rafters with Competition (AMC) in March. Math faculty member Paige families (many Ioppolo, who assisted the team in preparing for the from PDS!) competition, expressed pride in their accomplishments. attending the Two 10th graders, two 11th graders and four 12th graders “Young Artists’ performed well on the AMC 12 test (geared to grades 11 Benefit Concert for Scenic Hudson.” The event, produced and 12). Our two highest scorers were in the top 25% by student Aidan Cuite ’18, raised over $1,000 for Scenic nationwide. Weijian (Lucy) Lin ’15 had the top PDS score Hudson! The funds will be used by this not-for-profit and received an AMC award. The decision to form a math organization to protect and restore the Hudson River. club and to compete in this first AMC for PDS in recent memory was a student initiative. The 10th and 11th graders are looking forward to competing again next year. Sprout Creek Farm On a beautiful October day, the Student Entrepreneurs pre-K/K class had its first of many A few high school students have turned their passions into visits to Sprout Creek Farm. The nascent businesses. Julia Roellke ’15, a knitting enthusiast, farm was buzzing with activity is a prolific producer of leg warmers and many other items. and student engagement. The Elizabeth Pullman ’18, an accomplished ballet dancer, students learned about the spends many hours crafting, packaging and shipping hair history of the farm and its land, accessories for dancers. Angela Arzu ’15 spends a good took a walk along the creek and deal of time dedicated to perfecting her cupcakes and became acquainted with the nibbling goats, chickens and gaining inspiration from Cupcake Wars. Her marketing a two-day-old calf. The high school students also worked strategy: go door-to-door in her neighborhood and gain on the farm over the course of the school year; they fixed a instant customers! Many in the PDS community enjoyed wagon, installed fencing, cared for animals and witnessed her delectable delights at the Maker Faire in the fall. the birth of twin calves. Civil Engineer Evelyn National Merit Scholarship Finalist Grainger Visits Ken Brofman ’15 was recognized for an outstanding On June 1, Worcester academic achievement – attaining the status of Polytechnic Institute civil National Merit Scholarship finalist. He is one of the engineering student Evelyn 15,000 out of 1,500,00 PSAT test takers who make it Grainger, a family friend to this point in the process. of one of PDS’s middle

19 school students, spoke to the middle school about her A Legacy of Learning by Doing passion for helping families in Guatemala and Haiti access clean water through her work with Engineers without Life Skills Borders. The students heard some staggering statistics on The high school Life Skills program drew on many issues surrounding lack of access to clean water and the members of the community to share their expertise process engineers use to solve problems. Evie explained with students. Visiting experts her procedure for investigating water security in rural included a police officer, bank Guachtug, Guatemala with her Engineers without Borders representative, self-defense team: how they examined the quantity of water, its quality experts and our own Steve and the social/political barriers that prevent its access. Mallet, facilities manager. Her team also devised a rainwater harvesting system to Steve showed drivers or create a water security solution for people in Guatemala soon-to-be drivers the ropes and Haiti. And she challenged students to follow their of jumping a battery and passions and create excitement and support by sharing changing a tire. them with others. Expanding the The Get Knotted Club Classroom The Get Knotted club, under the leadership of Julia Roellke Last spring students in ’15 and advisor Julie O’Sullivan, taught middle school the Holocaust and Human students and Maker Faire visitors how to knit. They pieced Behavior intensive together a beautiful patchwork blanket using squares and study course, taught by strips made by club members. The blanket, sewn together Bernadette Condesso, by O’Sullivan’s son, Jonathan (grade 2), was donated to went on a daylong the Children’s Home of Poughkeepsie. The club is planning field trip to New York City to visit the Museum of Jewish to create another community blanket with a 7” x 9” square Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. pattern provided by Warm Up America. Instructions for the knitted or crocheted squares may be found at http://www. warmupamerica.org/patterns.html.

Scary Stories Congratulations to PDS students featured in this year’s Poughkeepsie Journal Scary Stories Contest:

First Place: Alone by Nachman Kaul-Seidman, grade 7 American Eel Project Honorable Mention: Parents by Ibrahim Waheed, grade 6 Brent Boscarino has brought his passion for conservation to the science curriculum through a partnership with the New Awesome Artwork: York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Red Smile, Cole Turner, grade 7 citizen-science program: The American Eel Research Project. The Tree, Georgia Marshall, grade 7 The program allows students to gain first-hand experience The Mysterious Shadow, with their local ecosystem and collaborate with area high Jane Canfield, grade 6 schools to collect information and relevant data about a Monkeys, Ethan Martin, grade 6 migratory fish, Anguilla rostrata or American eel. Spawned Then It Broke,Jade Baratta, grade 7 in the Atlantic Ocean, each spring the eels enter North Blindfold, Alexandra Kaminski, grade 7 American estuaries, including the Hudson River, as tiny, The Countdown, see-through "glass eels." In spite of their small size, the eels Diego Barron-Maya, grade 7 manage a strenuous upstream migration back to the ocean to spawn and develop into adult “silver eels.” The species has been in decline due to its value in the Asian black market, where one pound of eels brings $2600.

20 Every Thursday, Brent’s class exchanges the science lab Letter to a Poet for the fresh air and cool water of the Fall Kill stream to Middle school students participated in a program sift through the tiny creatures captured in fyke nets (large sponsored by the Academy of American Poets in April, hoop nets that act as funnels) set in the mouth of the National Poetry Month. The program, Dear Poet, invited tributary. The eels are counted, weighed and released, students to write a letter to a poet of their choosing. Grade and other environmental data is recorded. At the end of 6 student Ibrahim Waheed wrote U.S. Poet Laureate Juan each season the data is compiled and interpreted before Felipe Herrara about his poem Jackrabbits, Green Onions being sent for analysis to the New York State Department and Witches Stew. Ibrahim’s letter was selected for display of Environmental Conservation. The number of eels caught on the AAP website. per day has climbed from only 44 to approximately 200 since the start of the project in 2008. This is likely the Exploration of Chains result of a combination of factors, including more accurate As part of their humanities study in April, counting and sampling, improved water quality in the grade 7 students used poetry and drama to Hudson, construction of eel ladders at dams and a better conduct an artistic exploration of the novel understanding of biology and migratory patterns that help Chains, by Laurie Halse Anderson. History drive more appropriate conservation decisions. teacher Jake Lahey tweeted out a photo and specifically included Anderson in the By extending the borders of the classroom to meet the tweet. She responded with her approval. edge of research and knowledge creation, students experience the deep satisfaction of contributing to the FIRST Tech Challenge stream of scientific inquiry. Student Kate McKeon ’17 says, The PDS Navigators First Tech Challenge “Not only did eel sampling teach me how slippery and fast Team competed against 25 teams in the eels can be, but it also taught me how important the work Empire NY Lower Hudson Valley Qualifying is that we are doing....It is this kind of work that is vital in Tournament at Riverside High School repopulating endangered species and a great way for us to in Yonkers on January 25. Their semester of hard work give back to our local ecosystems.”

Intensive Collaboration A daylong collaboration between students in two intensive study courses, Poetry and Deaf Culture, resulted in an exploration of their respective language and craft. Students in the poetry course provided original writing, which was then interpreted through American Sign Language (ASL), with a designing, building and programing the robots paid focus on the meaning and off. The team, coached by high school math teacher Li intent of the poet through Pipman Denaut, placed third for its engineer notebook, selected signs and grammar a compilation of the team’s field notes, test trials, ideas as well as facial expression, and sketches. Additionally, Elizabeth Brooks ’16 was space and body language nominated as a 2014 First Tech Challenge FIRST Dean’s List to connote emotion. The Semi-Finalist. process inspired debate on the role of the translator, Middle School LEGO Robotics Mission the intentions of poets and In February, the middle the ideas and subtleties lost and gained in translation into school learning community any language. The Deaf Culture course was co-taught by took on the atmosphere of a Corina Zisman ’15 and faculty member Jonathan Heiles. sporting arena as families and Faculty member Josh Camp Brown co-taught the poetry peers watched in suspense to intensive with Elijah Santner ’15. see if LEGO robots built by

21 grade 6 students would fulfill the missions for which they Washington, D.C. were created. Many did! Students also created designs for a robot of the future and wrote about how a robot might solve a problem for society.

Broadway Student Summit

The annual grade 8 trip to Washington, DC, right before spring break, was replete with community service and student-led tours of monuments. The trip began with a light-hearted visit to the Baltimore Aquarium and ended on a solemn note with a visit to Arlington National Cemetery.

Read Across America The middle school joined peers Nine students from the high school Performance Studies across the country to celebrate class accompanied theater arts teacher Laura Hicks to Read Across America, an annual New York City for a three-day Broadway Student Summit event on March 2, which is workshop for students interested in professional theater. also the birthday of Theodore Students participated in stage fighting, vocal work and Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss). Grade 8 improv sessions led by professionals in the field and some English teacher and 7–8 advisor auditioned for casting directors who gave constructive Malorie Seeley-Sherwood chose feedback on their work. The group also attended a The House on Mango Street, by performance of the musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love Sandra Cisneros, as the work and Murder. to focus on. She initiated and organized an assembly and Nature’s Classroom invited all the middle school advisors to join her in reading Our grade 6 and 7 students and faculty spent a cold early aloud to the students. Spark Media worked with students spring week thinking outside their books at Nature’s to create a video based on a vignette from the book. Classroom in Becket, MA. Alongside their teachers, the students tracked animals in the snow, identified trees, Letters to Literature learned about the area’s history and engaged in team- Sponsored by the Center for the Book at the Library of building challenges each morning. Afternoon activities Congress, the Letters to Literature program asks students in science, history or language, ethnobotany, e.g.–an to write a letter to the author (living or dead) of a book, egg-drop contest or Haiku writing, engaged students’ poem or speech and explain what the work means to individual interests. Albatross Island, a simulation that them. Under the guidance of advisors Jake Lahey and explores cultural differences and assumptions we all Malorey Seeley-Sherwood, grade 7 and 8 students make, rounded out the five-day intensive study. composed letters to authors of contemporary works, such as those by Ingrid Law, John Green, Mark Haddon, Ellen Hopkins and Veronica Roth. Some students chose to write to authors of early childhood books, like Fireboat and The Missing Mitten Mystery, that recalled early memories of reading. Through their letter-writing, students connected

22 with characters and discussed how the books changed Model UN their perspectives. As part of the activity, students listened PDS was well to an NPR Morning Edition piece about WWII soldiers represented at the who used pocket-size books to help them get through Harvard Model UN the difficulties of the battlefield. The books, classic and in Boston in January contemporary, were published specifically for active with a delegation of 30 servicemen and were the subject of a recent book, When students, representing Books Went to War. As she researched the topic, author Mozambique and Molly Guptill Manning interviewed veterans who expressed Ethiopia. Reflective of how meaningful the books were to them. PDS students, PDS research, writing whose letters were already drafted when they listened to and public speaking strengths, six students were selected the NPR piece, were inspired by the soldiers’ stories. for Special Committee. PDS has participated in Model UN conferences for the last eight years, at Ivy League Model UN Fun with Lower School Conference (ILMUNC) and Harvard Model UN (HMUN).

Environmental Initiatives The goal of the Environmental Club is to make PDS a more sustainable place. The club has revamped the recycling program with re-labeling and streamlining. The building and design class helped to construct a recycling bin that was placed in a busy school hallway. High school students, under the leadership The end of November saw the launching of a cross- of advisor Brent Boscarino and Julia Roellke ’15, created divisional project, Fun with Lower School. Fourteen high and implemented educational outreach to the lower and school students offered seven activities for students in middle school. Solar lighting has also been installed. In grades pre-K–grade 3. Choices included building with summer 2015 club members mapped out and cleared Legos, singing, learning to play Four Square, leaf rubbings, a cross country and walking trail in a wooded section Native American hoop dancing, making paper airplanes, of PDS campus. Everyone is encouraged to support the origami and cookie decorating. Enviro Club’s sale of student-made DIY cleaning products at Poughkeepsie Mini Maker Faire 2015 to keep their Fish and Wildlife Study initiatives going. In May and June, students in Brian Reid’s grade 2 and 3 class participated in an intensive study of Hudson River fish and wildlife. They did not shy away from handling fish as they Traditions learned to identify their parts. Observation of a dissection brought an in-depth look at fish organs. Students wrote Music and Art in May haikus about the wildlife species they studied and created Music teacher Damon Banks coordinated this year’s evening inked prints using actual fish. They collaborated on a mural of Music and Art in May. It was a wonderful showcase of of the Hudson River to which they talent, with musical performances and featured artwork attached sketches of creatures in their from all divisions of PDS. typical habitat in the river ecosystem. A highlight was a poetry The study culminated in a visit to the reading performed by PDS Norrie Point Environmental Center in and community poets and Staatsburg. organized by Elijah Santner ’15.

23 peacemaker theme. The assembly, in the James Earl Jones Theater, featured grade 6 students reading their poems' last lines, a slideshow of posters by Lily Fiore ’16 and a closing performance by grades 2 and 3 of a song, “The Power of One,” composed by music teacher Bill Fiore.

Field Day On June 4, physical education teachers Lisa McVey and Jillian Walsh Eagle Society led a morning of games The annual meeting of the Eagle Society, on April 22, and summer fun on the opened with the traditional trumpet fanfare by music athletic fields. Students in teacher Bill Fiore, heralding the arrival of the Grand High the lower school competed Eagle (whose identity is zealously kept a mystery by the in races, relays and a water lower school elders). After a group recitation of The Eagle balloon toss. by Alfred Tennyson, lower school students were inducted into the society of poets and poetry lovers as they each Grandfriends Day recited poetry. Many high school students turned up Grandparents and special friends of lower school students to show support for the younger students during the visited the school on May 8. After a breakfast presentation ceremony, which, according to legend, was the brainchild of former PDS lower school head Cope Craven and literacy specialist Gretchen Lytle. Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky concluded the celebration.

Goodbye to the Seniors A recent PDS tradition was upheld on April 29, when All- School Activity groups gathered to honor and say “goodbye” to the Class of 2015. Ice cream was consumed in great quantities, followed by songs, ASA activities and speeches in the gym. Students worked collectively to construct a by head of school Josie Holford and assistant head of giant floor “puzzle” school/dean of lower school Mary Ellen Kenny, they visited composed of the classes and then were treated to Dancical, a music and letters of each dance performance choreographed by the students under senior’s last name. the leadership of artist-in-residence Jessie Levey, with new songs they learned from music instructor Bill Fiore. Peacemakers Julie O’Sullivan, high Author Visit school humanities teacher, created a new format for the Local author Iza Trapani, known for her popular series of annual Peacemakers Assembly on March 5. Students were extended nursery rhyme books, visited the lower school asked to reflect on the question: “What do peacemakers on April 17. She read her latest release, Little Miss Muffet, to do?” After a collective the pre-K/K and grade 1 classes. Students also got a sneak viewing of posters of selected preview of the author’s current writing project. peacemakers they had created in the preceding weeks, each student group gathered to write the final line of a poem on the

24 New Book Fair creating costumes made from newspapers, streamers and Chapman Library tape. This year’s costume parade was the largest ever: 39 Commons was seniors participated. Some of them, PDS students since transformed from pre-K, had waited 13 years for that moment. After the parade, December 10 to 12 grades 2 and 3 led the school in singing the classic song: during the annual “Halloween is Coming By.” PDSPA New Book Fair, organized with Come in from the Cold Scholastic Books. (a new tradition) Parent volunteers The PDS community and friends worked hard to gathered in the light and warmth of make it an engaging and fun experience for children and the Chapman Library Commons on adult book buyers and café patrons. February 28 for a time of story telling, songs and puppetry. Entertainment by Thanksgiving Celebration the Ivy Vine Players, Betty Boomer, Jill On Tuesday, November 25, students participated in the Olesker and our own Bindlestick Bill annual PDS Thanksgiving celebration. Meeting in their All- (aka Bill Fiore) transported the audience to other lands and times in much the same way that people of long ago gathered around a winter fire for storytelling. The event connected to the lower school study of the eastern woodlands people and how these gatherings in the long house kept the spirit and imagination alive while forging connections between generations. It was also a captivating way for younger students to practice appreciative listening as they concentrated on the narratives and enjoyed the rhythm and alliteration of their language.

PDS Unveils MyPDS.org! School Activity groups, students expressed the concept of This summer, PDS launched its new online platform, MyPDS. thankfulness by writing acrostic poems and then sat down to org, specifically designed to keep our community informed enjoy a special lunch of shepherd’s pie, butternut squash and and connected. PDS families now have a dashboard that pumpkin and apple pie, provided by Food Service Director gives them easy access to blogs and important information Tom Cosgrove and his staff. After lunch, everyone gathered from the school and Parents Association, downloadable in the James Earl Jones Theater to share the poetry and sing forms (health forms, supply lists, music lesson information, the school Thanksgiving song, written by PDS high school etc.), the complete public calendar, online family directory, students over a decade ago. student homework and reports and much more.

Halloween Is Coming By During All–School Activity on October 31, older students helped younger ones carve Halloween pumpkins in anticipation of the great pumpkin reveal – a light-up display in the James Earl Jones Theater. As part of this much-loved tradition, the younger children transform the seniors by

25 Faculty & Staff 2015

meet with admissions representatives at the Maryland Institute PDS Faculty & Administration College of Art, Johns Hopkins University, Loyola University Professional Development & and Goucher College. In September 2014, she attended the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) Leadership annual conference in Indianapolis where she participated in sessions on international students, recommendation letters, PDS faculty and staff engaged in a wide range of learning and athletic recruitment and first generation applicants and met with leadership activities in 2014–2015. Many were sponsored by the admissions representatives from colleges applied to by the Class New York State Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS) of 2015. In October 2014 she attended sessions on assessment and others by national associations of teachers of various methodology, structuring of academic departments, online academic subjects. All of these are opportunities to exchange learning and conflict resolution at the Independent Curriculum ideas and experience, gain exposure to the latest thinking and Group (ICG) Academic Leaders Conference in Rhode Island. approaches and bring them back to share with colleagues and Throughout the year she conducted Counselor's Fly-In visits students at PDS. to University of Tampa, Eckerd College and Florida Southern College to gain deeper knowledge of these college programs and Carol Bahruth (advancement associate for database assess their fit for PDS students. In her role as history teacher, management and online/blended learning) co-chaired the Bernadette was a presenter of Discussing Race in the Classroom for annual NYSAIS Admissions Directors Conference where she led the spring PDS faculty professional development day. a workshop, Design Thinking for Admissions Professionals.Held in April, it addressed techniques and problem-finding frameworks Stephen Currie (lower school math specialist) presented a for innovation and strategic leadership, the use of prototyping workshop on incorporating basketball into the elementary math and radical collaboration. Carol also co-led an orientation session curriculum at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics for new admissions directors and a session for admissions (NCTM) annual meeting/national conference held in Boston in directors from upstate New York. April 2015. This was his third year in a row as a presenter.

Brent Boscarino (high school science teacher) attended the NYSAIS Sustainability Summit for Educators across the Curriculum in November 2014 at Grace Church School in NYC. He explored the integration of sustainability principles and green design into the curriculum and overall school climate and culture. Also in November, Brent attended Covering Climate Change in the Classroom hosted by Teaching the Hudson Valley, Hudson River Estuary Program/ NYSDEC at the Henry A. Wallace Center, Poughkeepsie, NY. He explored ways of applying issues of global climate change to local issues in the Hudson Valley and found interesting resources on citizen science projects, ways of remotely accessing climate data and field exploration opportunities. Laura Graceffa (dean of middle school) attended the NYSAIS Division Heads and Assistant Heads Conference and the Middle Bernadette Condesso (director of college counseling) attended School Division Heads Unconference. Topics included how the annual Association of College Counselors in Independent to define a world-class education and develop creative and Schools (ACCIS) Summer Symposium in Baltimore in July entrepreneurial students. At the NYSAIS Emerging Leaders 2014. She took advantage of the location for college visits to Institute (ELI) in June, she presented on a panel: "Life After

26 ELI." ELI is a two-year course of study during which selected had participants using Arduino kits to create a music project. participants from NYSAIS schools learn with a dynamic cohort In March 2015, David was in Austin, TX to present STEAMing: alongside experienced school leaders and develop a customized Art and Technology, a hands-on workshop at the SXSWedu program to meet their professional goals and objectives. Laura Conference and Festival, a prestigious event that hosts a also served on a NYSAIS re-accreditation team at North Country diverse and energetic community of stakeholders from a variety School in Lake Placid, NY. of backgrounds in education. He also presented on the topic Teaching Art and Technology at a New York State Engineering Brielle Grover (music and Spanish teacher) attended two Educators Association (NYSEEA) event and NYSCATE STEM Dalcroze intensive workshops through the Dalcroze Society of Conference in July 2015. In August 2015, David was a facilitator America, one in August 2014 at the Lucy Moses School in NYC at the NYSAIS STEAMCamp in Rensselaerville, NY, where and the other in the fall of 2014 at Diller-Quaile School of Music, technologists and teachers explored design thinking across grade also in NYC. The focus of the workshops was sight singing, levels and subjects. musical dictation, teaching rhythm through movement and musical improvisation. Josie Holford (head of school) was an organizer and attendee of the joint NY, CT, NJ Associations of Independent Schools Jonathan Heiles (middle and high school science teacher) Conference for Heads of School at Mohonk Mountain House in attended the MakerBot Innovation Center’s short course in 3D New Paltz in November 2014. Also in November, she attended printing in July 2015. Also in July, he taught Biomechanics and the annual conference of the Head Mistresses Association of the Theories of Time Travel at the Summer Institute for the Gifted at East in Princeton, NJ, where she led a Design Thinking for School Vassar College. Jonathan attended A Taste of Python, an April 2015 Leaders workshop. webinar offered by the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology. The focus was the Python programming language In February 2014, Josie attended the National Association of and its applications for analyzing seismic data. PDS students Independent Schools (NAIS) annual conference in Boston. Josie Arthur Heiles ’16, Orion Wilmerding ’15 and Johnson Lin ’17 helped organize the NYSAIS Online Teaching and Learning provided Python support to attendees while Jonathan gave the Conference in December 2014 at Mohonk. The event was attended geologic context. by PDS faculty members Bernadette Condesso, Jonathan Heiles, Jake Lahey and Malorie Seeley-Sherwood. The conference addressed platforms and philosophies regarding blended as well as online-only learning and offered a view of online programs and strategies for implementing them for PDS high school students. She continues to serve as a trustee of NYSAIS and the Independent Curriculum Group and is on the advisory board of Educating Modern Learners. As chair of the NYSAIS membership committee, Josie visits schools applying for membership and assesses their readiness for the accreditation process.

Anita Jones (administrative assistant for advancement) served David Held (director of technology) was a presenter at the as secretary on the board of directors for the Catharine Street annual conference of the New York Association for Computers Community Center and as ambassador for Walkway Over the and Technologies in Education (NYSCATE) in Rochester in Hudson. She has also chaired both the Martin Luther King Jr. November 2014. His Art and Technology workshop explored Scholarship and Program committees for the City of Poughkeepsie. the use of technology in both visual and performing arts and

27 Mary Ellen Kenny (assistant head of school/lower school dean) at the Professional Children's School in NYC in February 2015. participated in three NYSAIS conferences. They were Learning In October 2014, she attended the Independent Curriculum Disabilities Over a Lifetime: What Educators Can Do to Help Promote Group (ICG) Academic Leaders Retreat and the NYSAIS Assistant/ Success; Assistant/Division Heads Conference Leadership in Action: Division Heads Conference in November 2014. Karen is currently Cultivating students, faculty and ourselves; and Diversity Conference: assisting with the organization of the NYSAIS Department Heads Diversity University Cultivating Excellence in Our Diversity and Equity Conference to be held during the school year. Practice. During the course of the year she visited faculty at Bank Street School for Children to discuss curriculum development in Julie O’Sullivan (English and humanities instructor) was a co- social studies and integrated art. presenter of Using Technology in the English-as-a-Second-Language Classroom at the New York State TESOL (Teachers of English to Stan Lichens (director of special projects) presented STEAM Speakers of Other Languages) conference in Albany in November Content Development Tool-Kit for Educators at the National 2015. She explained how to use technology in short- and long- Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) national conference term projects to build ESL learners' reading, writing, listening and in Boston in February 2015. He shared methodology for creating speaking skills. STEAM content in any school environment, public or private, based on PDS’s long legacy of cross-curricular education. He also Andrea Parent-Tibbetts (chief financial officer) attended the demonstrated how to use a set of configured curriculum cards in NYSAIS Business Managers Conference in May 2015 and also a tool-kit developed by Poughkeepsie Day School. served on a panel about the organization’s accreditation process.

Dorothy Luongo (grade 5) attended the NYSAIS Diversity Christina Powers (advancement associate for development) Conference in April 2015 at the Lycée Français de New York. attended the NYSAIS Institutional Advancement Conference Participants focused on representing multiple identities in at Mohonk Mountain House in May 2015. Sessions focused on teaching literature, artwork and history, as well as how to alumni affairs, fundraising and communications, including document diversity work in the curriculum, admissions, hiring innovative ideas for marketing and branding, donor research, and professional development. Dorothy also attended the planned giving, capital campaigns and strategic planning. August 2015 NYSAIS STEAM Camp, in Rensselaerville, NY, where Christina also attended the July 2015 Independent School technologists and teachers explored design thinking across Management (ISM) workshop on Preparing for a Blockbuster Capital grade levels and subjects. She focused on the interplay between Campaign in Wilmington, Delaware. curriculum, art, hands-on learning, and tech/ engineering/ tinkering tools like Lego robotics, Makey Makey and 3D printing. Tammy Reilly (advancement associate for admissions) attended the April 2015 NYSAIS Admissions Directors Annual Conference, Karl Mauks (middle school teacher/advisor) attended a February where the focus was how to build a thriving enrollment in the 2015 Constructing Modern Knowledge institute workshop, changing landscape of admissions. She has joined the planning Invent to Learn in a Reggio Context, hosted by the Marymount committee for next year’s conference. School of New York. It focused on the Reggio Emilia approach to education and how it intersects the maker movement. Its main Emma Sears (middle school science teacher) attended a 2014 theme was pedagogy led by student curiosity and the teacher’s workshop on Covering Climate Change in the Classroom hosted by role in curating the learning environment. In April 2015 he Teaching the Hudson Valley at the Henry Wallace Education Center attended the NCTM annual meeting and conference in Boston. at the FDR Presidential Library in Hyde Park. The focus was how Karl participated in The Role of Visualization, What is Modeling?; to help students develop a role as citizen scientists and offer them Addressing Gender Bias in Math Education; and Exploring the Common opportunities to create their own action items for change. Emma Core’s Principles to Actions sessions. also attended a weeklong bioenergy and bioproducts summer institute given by the Teaching Partners Program for educators Amy Miklos (pre-K/K) attended a November 2014 NYSAIS at Cornell Cooperative Extension in Dutchess County. The focus workshop, Responsive Classroom: A year of morning meetings, was integrating new energy technologies and sustainable systems in Riverside, NY. It focused on how to incorporate responsive thinking into the classroom. classroom techniques to create a joyful classroom community founded on mutual trust and understanding between teachers and Jillian Walsh (physical education teacher and coach) attended students. Amy also attended the NYSAIS Diversity Conference in the NYSAIS Sexuality Ed 101 for Counselors (and other humans) April 2015 at the Lycée Français de New York. Participants focused workshop in April 2015 in New York City. The focus was strategies on representing multiple identities in teaching literature, artwork for creating a more comprehensive human sexuality curriculum and history, as well as how to document diversity work in the in grades K–12. curriculum, admissions, hiring and professional development. Barbara Wood (math department chair/math instructor) Karen Nichols (dean of high school) completed a two-year learned how to help students improve their executive program at the NYSAIS Emerging Leaders Institute (ELI) held functioning through coaching during the NYSAIS Brain at the Cary Institute in Rensselaerville, NY, in August 2014. ELI Conference in March 2015. In April 2015 she attended the participants are faculty members from NYSAIS schools selected NCTM annual meeting and conference in Boston. Barbara also to learn alongside experienced school leaders and develop attended the NCTM annual research conference, which brings a customized program to meet their professional goals and researchers and practitioners together to examine and discuss objectives. Karen presented on her ELI Project – Researching and current issues in mathematics education. defining a learning management system for the high school. Also through ELI, she participated in the Winter Leadership Workshop

28 PDS Hosts Regional Education Conference Poughkeepsie Day School hosted Edcamp Hudson Valley in August in 2014. This annual unconference brings together educators and students from around the region for a day of Faculty Focus on First Aid sharing, learning and innovating. Almost all PDS faculty attended the event, and many presented, including Barbara Wood, Mary Ellen Kenny and Karen Nichols who led a well-received session on learning management systems.

School nurse, Maritza Sanchez and faculty members Barbara A Yearlong Focus on DIversity Wood, Lisa McVey and Jillian Walsh co-taught a class on PDS faculty and staff attended a series of presentations on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), use of an Automated diversity held on faculty professional days throughout the External Defibrillator (AED) and basic first aid to faculty and staff 2014–2015 school year. Topics included Identity, Privilege and in September 2014. Faculty were also instructed on the use of an Race; Facing History and Ourselves; Universe of Obligations; and EpiPen for severe anaphylaxis reaction, handling blood-borne Discussing Race in the Classroom. pathogens and the proper and safe way to put on and remove protective gloves. PDS Welcomes New Faculty and Staff!

Andrea Tufts Erin Martin Mary Ruvolo Joshua Luckens Brielle Grover Communications High School Theater Technical Theater Director Music and Spanish Coordinator Science Manager, Lower Teacher School Drama

Charlotte Lachman Edward Martin Hannah Sunshine Joan Garcia Geoffrey Dubas After-School Program High School History Lower School Middle and High High School Math Assistant Director Teacher School Spanish

29 Commencement

On June 10, the Class of 2015, the largest graduating class in the history of the school, received their diplomas. Filled with thoughtful remarks, original music and poetry and a sizable dose of humor, the ceremony included a new PDS tradition: Each graduate received a unique graduation cap decorated to match their personalities and interests by students in grades 4-5.

The event opened with a rendition of The Beatles’ “Hello, Goodbye” by the PDS jazz ensemble. Karen Nichols, dean of high school, told the graduates, “I have had the pleasure of teaching and advising each of you during your time at PDS…and, in turn, you have advised me and truly helped me lead. I have been in awe of your talents. Collectively, you are a kind, intelligent, creative, strong and independent group of people.”

Bernadette Condesso, senior class advisor, addressed the class. “As the future generation of this country, you have been given the task of finding out the answers to ‘how can I engage with and repair this world?’ This is truly the most important question that faces us all – not simply today or tomorrow, but since the beginning of time. It’s a task that may seem daunting to you, but I know that you are fully prepared to face it head-on. You have been part of a community where personal human interaction and the ability to change and the ability to think have helped you prepare for the next step of your journey.”

Commencement speaker Swati Khurana ’93 spoke to graduates about the importance of understanding and ambition. ”Ambition is like looking over a diving board. Ambition is delicious, intoxicating and feverish…but like a little creature, it needs to be nurtured and fed. Ambition is also contagious. Why do you think so many of us have stayed here to become your teachers – it’s to be around all of you. I have faith in your work ethic and drive. I know that you will all bloom in new areas and move at your own pace, and that your dreams may shift and change. But I want to tell you that wherever you find success – never lose your ambition and dream widely!”

After two decades as an artist in multiple media, with a focus on gender and culture and a portfolio of community projects, Swati went back to school to realize her ambition to become a novelist. She recently completed an M.F.A. in fiction at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Her writing has appeared in Columbia Review, Asian American Literary Review, the South Asian literary journal Jaggery, Bloom, The Weeklings journal, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood and The Feminist Wire and received an honorable mention in Glimmer Train Press’s Very Short Fiction Contest.

30 College Acceptances Albion College Goucher College (2) School of the Art Institute of Chicago Alfred University (Engineering & Prof. Studies) Guilford College (2) Skidmore College Allegheny College Hampshire College (2) Smith College (2) American University (2) Hobart and William Smith Colleges (3) Southern California Institute of Architecture Bard College (2) Hofstra University St. John's University Bennington College Hunter College of CUNY SUNY Albany Binghamton University (8) Ithaca College (6) SUNY Buffalo (2) Boston College Johns Hopkins University SUNY Geneseo (2) Boston University (2) Kenyon College SUNY Oneonta (3) Brandeis University (3) Knox College SUNY Purchase (5) Bryn Mawr College Lehigh University SUNY Stony Brook (2) Case Western Reserve University Lesley University The Culinary Institute of America Central College Manhattan College Trinity College Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design Manhattanville College Union College (6) Champlain College (2) Marist College University of California, Davis Clark University (4) Maryland Institute College of Art University of California, Santa Cruz Clarkson University Moravian College University of Hartford Clemson University (Engineering & Science) Mount Holyoke College (2) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Colby-Sawyer College (2) Muhlenberg College (College of Engineering) College of the Atlantic New York University University of Mississippi Connecticut College North Carolina State University University of Rhode Island Cornell University Northeastern University (2) University of Rochester Earlham College (3) Oberlin College University of San Francisco Elmira College Parsons The New School for Design University of Vermont (4) Emerson College Penn. State University University of Wisconsin Emmanuel College Purdue University Ursinus College Eugene Lang College Quinnipiac University (5) Vassar College The New School for Liberal Arts Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (4) Warren Wilson College Fairfield University (University College) Rhode Island School of Design (2) Washington State University Fisher College Rochester Institute of Technology (3) Wesleyan University Fordham University (3) Sacred Heart University Wheaton College MA (2) Furman University Saint Anselm College Worcester Polytechnic Institute George Mason University Sarah Lawrence College Yale University

31 Class of 2015

Ahmad Aftab Ken Brofman

Hometown: Newburgh Hometown: Hopewell Junction

Interests: Sports medicine Interests: Government, economics

College: Stony Brook University College: American University Congressman Sean Patrick Internship: Dr. Imtiaz Mallik Internship: Maloney's office

Eleanor Amsden Hollee Candido

Hometown: Poughkeepsie (Highland) Hometown: New Paltz

Interests: Sports, animal therapy Interests: Journalism, singing

College: Hobart & William Smith College: Ithaca College

Internship: High 10 Media Internship: CCTV Center for Media & Democracy

Liam Appelson Thomas Capstick

Hometown: Mt. Tremper Hometown: New Hamburg

Interests: Engineering, physics Interests: Baseball, basketball, human services

College: Yale University College: Connecticut College

Internship: Town Justice Rosendale Internship: JB Global Rates Hedge Fund

Angela Arzu Joseph Dragon

Hometown: Wappingers Falls Hometown: Kingston

Interests: Journalism, poetry Interests: Cartography, linguistics

College: Boston College College: Bennington College

Internship: Hudson Valley Magazine Internship: Hudson Valley Sudbury School

Anne Boehringer Julian Dufour

Hometown: Stanfordville Hometown: Hopewell Junction

Interests: Spanish language, culture Interests: Fashion, photography University of the Arts Central College: College: University of Mississippi Saint Martins (London, UK) Internship: Center for Prevention of Internship: Tom Ford International Child Abuse

32 Ken Brofman Zoe Einhorn Jack Gorman

Hopewell Junction Hometown: Rhinebeck Hometown: Rhinebeck Animal assisted therapy, Interests: Interests: Engineering, music, swimming Government, economics tennis, child advocacy College: Wesleyan University American University College: Skidmore College Congressman Sean Patrick Internship: AppCard Inc. Maloney's office Internship: David Howell Designs

Erica Enriquez Jesse Held Hollee Candido Hometown: Newburgh Hometown: New Paltz New Paltz Interests: Art, music Interests: Neuroscience, social justice Journalism, singing College: Rhode Island School of Design College: Brandeis University Ithaca College Internship: Live at the Falcon Internship: Mohonk Preserve CCTV Center for Media & Democracy

Chenlong Fan Claire Houston Thomas Capstick Hometown: China Hometown: Hopewell Junction New Hamburg Interests: Engineering, music Interests: Engineering, Girls Scouts, robotics Baseball, basketball, human services University of Illinois at College: College: Mount Holyoke College Connecticut College Urbana-Champaign Internship: Girl Scouts USA JB Global Rates Hedge Fund Internship: Fuzhou FD Auto

Joseph Dragon Simon Fekete Schuyler Kempton

Kingston Hometown: Rhinebeck Hometown: New Paltz

Cartography, linguistics Interests: Medicine, animal rights Interests: Government, public policy

Bennington College College: Brandeis University College: Earlham College

Hudson Valley Sudbury School Internship: Ruge's Chrysler Internship: County Legislator Joel Tyner

Julian Dufour Noam Fisherman Weijian Lin

Hopewell Junction Hometown: Beacon Hometown: China

Fashion, photography Interests: Philosophy, Ultimate Frisbee Interests: Cooking, math

University of the Arts Central College: Oberlin College College: Smith College Saint Martins (London, UK) Internship: Hudson Beach Glass Internship: Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Tom Ford International

33 Xiangyu Liu Sarah Nolan

Hometown: China Hometown: New Paltz

Interests: Basketball, Mathematics Interests: Social Justice, Gender Studies, animal assisted therapy College: Rochester Institute of Technology College: Bard College Internship: Xiamen Hansheng Yacht Building Internship: Tom's Repair Shop

Tyler Lussow Julia Roelke

Hometown: Hopewell Junction Hometown: Poughkeepsie

Interests: Music, Occupational Therapy Interests: Basketball, environmentalism, knitting

College: Ithaca College College: Vassar College

Internship: doNYC Internship: AIA Oregon

Ariana Milan Elijah Santner

Hometown: Hyde Park Hometown: Highland (New Paltz)

Interests: Social Justice, Gender Studies Interests: Poetry, agriculture

College: Hunter College of the City College: College of the Atlantic University of New York Internship: Poets House Internship: doNYC

Jenna Misra Ben Scholl

Hometown: Hyde Park Hometown: Olivebridge

Interests: Photography, writing Interests: Music, human services

College: Champlain College College: SUNY Purchase

Internship: Sunflower Cafe Internship: Family of Woodstock

Gwen Nahnsen Mac Selesnick

Hometown: Stone Ridge (Saugerties) Hometown: Rhinebeck

Interests: Government, public policy, Interests: Theater, music gender equality College: Bard College College: American University Internship: doNYC Internship: Babycakes Cafe and LEKKER

34 Sarah Nolan Margaret Silver Ziyi Xu

New Paltz Hometown: Poughkeepsie Hometown: China

Social Justice, Gender Studies, Interests: Softball, soccer, engineering, Interests: Cooking, Figure skating animal assisted therapy student leadership College: The Culinary Institute of America Bard College College: Clemson University Internship: Babycakes Cafe Tom's Repair Shop Internship: Select Sports Group

Julia Roelke Brooke Tibbetts Tianyi Yu

Poughkeepsie Hometown: Hyde Park Hometown: China

Basketball, environmentalism, knitting Interests: Community service, sports, Interests: Art, graphic design animal assisted therapy Vassar College College: RISD College: Albion College AIA Oregon Internship: PDS + Boardman Rd Library Internship: Cornell Cooperative Extension

Elijah Santner Joi Tucker-Morris Zhuoran Zhang

Highland (New Paltz) Hometown: Wappingers Falls Hometown: China

Poetry, agriculture Interests: Fashion, travel, Interests: Figure skating, singing, piano youth health promoter College of the Atlantic College: Boston University College: Ithaca College Poets House Internship: Wimpfheimer Nursery School

Ben Scholl Thaddeus Wilmerding Corina Zisman

Olivebridge Hometown: Poughkeepsie Hometown: High Falls

Music, human services Interests: Japenese, writing Interests: American Sign Language, human services, engineering SUNY Purchase College: Northeastern University College: Johns Hopkins University Family of Woodstock Internship: Moscow Food Coop Internship: Taconic Resources for Independence

Mac Selesnick

Rhinebeck

Theater, music

Bard College doNYC

35 We exceeded our 2014–15 Annual Fund Thank You PDS Community for an Amazing Year of goal of $80,000! Fundraising & Community Building! $80,000+

Faculty Development and Support Curriculum $70,000 Costs associated with teachers attending Media education workshops, institutes, conferences Dance $60,000 Membership fees for professional organizations Take One Picture program Funds for artists-in-residence College software and applications Junior class spring college visits $50,000 Technology Building relationships with college iPads and Chromebooks admissions offices Video cameras $40,000 Interactive projection technology Field Trips 3D printing materials New York City and The Cloisters $30,000 Outdoor adventure trips Hudson River Study $20,000 Athletics Nature’s Classroom Team uniforms outdoor education Transportation Washington D.C. $10,000 Referees and umpires Metropolitan Museum of Art Ice-skating and skiing Sprout Creek Farm program Coaches Need-based student aid for student trips A big welcome to our new Institutional Advancement team, focused on enrollment, communications, Equipment fundraising and community building. Lab equipment Theater, Music, Art & Student Productions Electronic probes, balances and microscopes Costumes Toys for the playground Upgrades to sound and lighting systems Floor scooters for the gym Musical instruments New tables for Gilkeson art room Scripts Service Learning Opportunities Transportation for service learning Liz Vinogradov Christina Powers Carol Bahruth Library/Research Library databases Community Building Visiting authors Parent Talent Show New resources for the library Alumni Roundtable Student All-School Activities, including Peacemakers Assembly

Anita Jones Tammy Reilly Mary Lou Hudak Andrea Tufts

36 Thank You PDS Community for an Amazing Year of Our goal for the 2015–16 Annual Fund is $88,000. Let's join together as a community and surpass this to Fundraising & Community Building! strengthen our already amazing programs. Give online at poughkeepsieday.org

Curriculum Media education Dance Take One Picture program College software and applications Junior class spring college visits Building relationships with college admissions offices

Field Trips New York City and The Cloisters Outdoor adventure trips We are looking to embark on new capital projects focused on Hudson River Study Green initiatives, safety and excellent curb appeal Nature’s Classroom outdoor education Washington D.C. Metropolitan Museum of Art Sprout Creek Farm program Need-based student aid for student trips

Equipment Lab equipment Electronic probes, balances and microscopes Toys for the playground Floor scooters for the gym New tables for Gilkeson art room

Service Learning Opportunities Transportation for service learning

Community Building Parent Talent Show Alumni Roundtable Student All-School Activities, including Peacemakers Assembly

37 Mary Gesek Thanking our Donors Johan & Laurie Hedlund Michael & Mary Kay Poulos & Volunteers David & Mary Ann Silver The M & T Charitable Foundation The following listings recognize gifts of resources, talent and time to Poughkeepsie Day School during the 2014– BIG ROOM CLUB 2015 fiscal year from July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015. GIFTS OF $2,500 – $4,999 We are deeply grateful to our community of donors and The large, open multi-purpose space called the Big volunteers for all of their contributions to support learning Room was the center of community life at “39,” PDS’s at PDS. New Hackensack Road home from 1963 to 1995. The Big Room served as cafeteria, library, theater, classroom, gym Membership in the school’s Leadership Giving Clubs and meeting area, often at the same time! It was where is based on total giving to the PDS Annual Fund younger and older PDS students interacted and was the (unrestricted) and restricted gifts or pledge payments setting for four-square games, Renaissance festivals, made during the 2014–2015 year. While every effort all-school dinners and the birthplace of the original has been made to ensure the accuracy of these lists, musical. Through their generous gifts, members of the Big please don’t hesitate to contact the advancement office Room Club strengthen the educational experience of the at 845.462.7600, ext. 109 if an error has been made. community of learners at PDS.

Hal & Valery Einhorn ExxonMobil Corporation Ethan & Elizabeth Gundeck Kenwood Foundation Takashi Oyagi

COMPASS CLUB GIFTS OF $1,000 – $2,499 Adopted as the official school logo when PDS moved to 39 New Hackensack Road, the compass symbolizes the value of a PDS education: a useful and enduring tool for finding one’s calling or path in life. In 2008 the design of the compass logo was updated to emphasize the global nature of a PDS education and underscore the school’s motto: many minds, one world. The vital support of Compass Club members helps to ensure the relevancy LEADERSHIP GIVING and value of a PDS education.

KENYON SOCIETY Anthony Bax & Sabrina Ferguson GIFTS OF $5,000 – $9,999 Melissa Beck & Andrew Leff Kenyon House, built in 1913, was once the mansion on the Anthony & Courtenay Budd Caramico “Cliffdale” estate of industrialist Clarence Kenyon, known Richard Chazen ’66 for establishing factories to take workers out of home Ernesto & Kimberly Conde sweatshops. His daughter, Helen Kenyon, a Vassar College Colin Cuite & Stacey Mesler alumna, was a vigorous fundraiser for her alma mater and the first woman elected chair of the Vassar College board of trustees. She was active in the community and a fighter for the underprivileged with interests in education, religion, politics, public welfare and community progress. The estate was bought by IBM in 1944. The mansion served IBM as a research laboratory and later as a guest house and education center. Purchased by PDS in 1995, Kenyon House is home to the high school and administrative offices. Through their generous gifts to advance Poughkeepsie Day School, members of the Kenyon Society epitomize the activism and commitment of the Kenyons.

38 NAVIGATORS CLUB GIFTS OF $250 – $499 By a student vote in 2009, Navigators was selected as the name for PDS athletic teams. The name relates to the school logo, the compass, and testifies to how PDS students see themselves: smart, thoughtful, resourceful individuals with the ability and courage to forge a unique identity and discover their place in the larger world. Through their gifts, members of the Navigators Club enable our students to fully realize their passion and potential.

Jane Amsden Charles & Christine Agro The Educational Foundation of America Andlynn Construction Inc. Virginia Hart Alberto & Marie-Helene Aresi Josie Holford Sam & Regina Bei Syed & Romana Hosain Christopher & Etsuko Bjork IBM Corporation Henry & Jayne Boehringer Mary Ellen & Peter Kenny Peter* & Elizabeth Brofman Ian & Jamie Landsman Martha Burns & Carol Bahruth Sharlene Oyagi Joseph & Claudia Candido James Page & Amy Sherman Colin Chazen '05 Christopher & Kim Roellke John ’49 & Catherine Coulter John Wallach & Amanda Thornton Ian Crane & Jaye Thacker John T. Whelan ’87 & Rupal Mittal Ileen Critz Edith Dabney EAGLES CLUB Kirk & Karen Endicott GIFTS OF $500 – $999 Christian Fekete & Kimberly Baker A longstanding rite of passage for PDS lower school students Dan Fisherman & Jennifer Clapp is becoming a member of the Eagle Society by reciting Lester & Jan Greenberg their favorite poems, including The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Josh & Jackie Hadden Tennyson (1851) and the much beloved Jabberwocky by Anna Holder Lewis Carroll (1872). Through their gifts members of the John & Antonia Houston Eagles Club recognize that giving is a vital expression of Salah & Kefah Jamal community that enables the school to keep moving forward. Charlotte Jones Donald Klybas & Caroline Danford Lois Bailey Michael & Cindy Kryger Deborah Beck Jaime Lozada Fernandez & Monica Alvarez Camero Bronwyn Bevan Bruce & Marsha Moskowitz Richard & Michele Chazkel Rebecca Parish & Patrick Downes Jean Churchill W. Russell Pickering & Elise Quimby Stephen Enriquez & Ann Patsalos-Enriquez Michael & Sara Rothman John Galbraith & Katie Green Sun & Leslie Sachs Anya Ginandes ’95 Kevin Smith & Kali Rosenblum Steven & Lorraine Greene Samuel Speers & Lisa Brawley David Held & Jill Malden-Held John & Beth Storyk David Kaminski & Jennifer Berlind Barbara Swanson Benjamin King & Michelle Ross-King James Tucker Mortimer Malden Liz & Alex Vinogradov Thomas Meyer & Julie Stevenson Austin & Elizabeth Wilmerding John & Laura Park Maurice Wysocki & Patricia Breslin Peter Schalk ’86 Harry & Jennifer Yan Mark Schlessman & Laura Graceffa Craig Zisman & Jackie Katzen Amy Tripi Aaron Warshawsky & Mary Goggin Sharr White & Evelyn Carr-White Jeffrey Wiseman & Alice Hawkins

39 INNOVATORS CLUB Hillary ’93 & Owen Harvey David Santner GIFTS OF $100 – $249 Robert & Hilary Hayes Edward & Andrea Sayago Radley Horton & Danielle Martinelli David Schalk At PDS, learning has always been active Jerry Joseph Hamilton & Barbara Scheer and engagement prized. Through their gifts, Nader & Maria Kayal Thomas & Yukie Schmitz members of the Innovators Club help drive Marc Kemeny & Clare Cosslett Elliott Schreiber & Julie O’Sullivan learning that is project based, experiential Daniel Kempton Anna Mae Schuler and authentic. Erik Kiviat ’61 JoAnn Schwartz Frederik Kjeldsen & Lorraine Seach Raymond Schwartz & Christina Powers Kitty Adamo & Jim Todd Jianfeng Liu & Hong Lin Richard Schwartz Adobe Systems Jonathan & Terry Lussow Judah ’58 & Deborah Sommer Peter Antelyes & Leslie Dunn Mitchell Stagg ’65 Mark Stapylton & Alisa Kwitney Mark Stier & Hope Scott-Stier Scott & Lucia Swartz Karen Teich Matthew & Alicia Tether Michael Tibbetts & Andrea Parent-Tibbetts Jonathan & Kim Urban Kristen Vale-Mosack ’92 Dean Vallas & Debra Pemstein Adele Warshawsky Susan Willson Lucius & Adela Wilmerding Barbara L. Wood ’78 Patricia Yenawine

YOUNG ALUMNI LEADERS Members of the last ten PDS graduating classes who made a gift of at least $25 distinguish themselves as Young Alumni Leaders. They understand that when they were students, they benefited from the gifts of those who came before them. These young alumni are paying their gifts forward, ensuring that today’s PDS students will benefit, as they did, from the gifts of those Katherine Maas ’99 who came before them. Peter & Liz Appelson Zoltan Markus & Paulina Bren George & Phebe Banta Sr. Victoria Mayes & Frank Furio Amie Anderson ’06 Wayne & Laura Baratta Stephen Meagher & Stacey Penlon Anne Boehringer ’15 Jane Barber Smith John & Karen Messley Matthew Buccelli ’06 Gary & Edith Beck Mark & Kathleen Metzger Amalia Driller-Colangelo ’14 Harriet Bernstein Stephen Miller & Anna Bertucci Emma Driller-Colangelo ’10 Paul Bickart ’55 & Marcia Reecer Gregg Miron ’83 Erica Enriquez ’15 Gloria Bragdon James & Janice Monsma Peter Enriquez '12 Fred & Alice Brooks, Jr. Sandra Moore & James Curran Noam Fisherman ’15 Saul & Deborah Brown Maurice & Sharon Moran Akif Hosain ’14 Joel & Kimberly Carpenter Benjamin Lotto & Karen Nichols Fatima Hosain ’11 James Davidson & Mary Untalan Lyle Nolan & Linda Monkman Claire Houston ’15 Damian & Cyndi De Rosaire Amanda North Tyler Lussow ’15 Jack & Terry Driller Sevgin & Elizabeth Oktay Matthew Luzzi '21 Paul ’46 & Betty Drouilhet Nellia Olivencia Anna Raugalis ’06 Harriet Finkelstein Leonard & Sandra Opdycke Emma V. Roellke ’12 Richard & Jane Fisher Wes Ostertag & Neall Burger Tanner Urban ’14 Mike & Christine Foley Tyler & Kim Pennock Corina Zisman ’15 Roger & Louise Foucek George & Carol Poles Don Fried Dennis & Barbara Powers Tessa Friedman Thomas & Melissa Ptacek Gerard & Joanne Galluscio Martin & Jeanne Puryear Burton & Miriam Gold THE PDS COMMUNITY Karen Quiana Catherine Goldberg Michael & Patricia Quiana OF DONORS Steven Gorn & Barbara Bash Brian & Lisa Reid Dan Greenberg & Joann Alvis TRUSTEES Martha Reid Richard Grinnell & Leigh Williams Lois Bailey Shirley & Frank Rinaldi Shirley & Bernard Handel Melissa Beck Elizabeth Roellke William & Gay Hartigan Bronwyn Bevan Nancy ’47 & Pat Russell

40 Christopher Bjork Ian & Jamie Landsman Jeffrey Wiseman & Alice Hawkins Valery Einhorn Jianfeng Liu & Hong Lin Maurice Wysocki & Patricia Breslin Dan Fisherman Jaime Lozada Fernandez & Harry & Jennifer Yan Mary Gesek Monica Alvarez Camero Craig Zisman & Jackie Katzen Elizabeth Gundeck Zoltan Markus & Paulina Bren Sue Hart Stephen Meagher & Stacey Penlon Johan Hedlund Mark & Kathleen Metzger ADMINISTRATION, FACULTY & STAFF Romana Hosain Stephen Miller & Anna Bertucci Carol Bahruth Sharlene Oyagi Quincy Mills & Gail Upchurch Mills Jay Celuch Kim Roellke Benjamin Lotto & Karen Nichols Bernadette Condesso Mark Stapylton Lyle Nolan & Linda Monkman Lynn Fordin Amanda Thornton Amanda North Don Fried Sharlene Oyagi Laura Graceffa PARENTS Takashi Oyagi Jonathan Heiles Allaeddin & Randa Abdelrahman Rebecca Parish & Patrick Downes David Held Charles & Christine Agro John & Laura Park Josie Holford Alberto & Marie-Helene Aresi Jeanne Patsalos & Vincent Trunzo Mary Lou Hudak Wayne & Laura Baratta Tyler & Kim Pennock Darcy Kelly Robert Barron & Elizabeth Maya George & Carol Poles Mary Ellen Kenny Anthony Bax & Sabrina Ferguson Brian Powers & Maxanne Resnick Jacob Lahey Gary & Edith Beck Thomas & Melissa Ptacek Dorothy Luongo Melissa Beck & Andrew Leff Karen Quiana Gretchen Lytle Bronwyn Bevan Brian & Lisa Reid Steve Mallet Daniel Blachman & Daniela Gershman Christopher & Kim Roellke Bryan Maloney Henry & Jayne Boehringer Sun & Leslie Sachs Victoria Mayes Sara Bragdon David Santner Amy Miklos Peter* & Elizabeth Brofman Edward & Andrea Sayago Karen Nichols Thomas ’82 & Erica Brooks Thomas & Yukie Schmitz Andrea Parent-Tibbetts Christopher & Natasha Brown William Scholl & Paula Bojarsky-Scholl Li Pipman Denaut Martha Burns & Carol Bahruth Elliott Schreiber & Julie O'Sullivan Judy Purcell Joseph & Claudia Candido Raymond Schwartz & Christina Powers Brian Reid Anthony & Courtenay Budd Caramico Jeffrey Seidman & Lisa Kaul Tammy Reilly Joel & Kimberly Carpenter Deidre Sepp Shirley Rinaldi Richard & Michele Chazkel Barry Cohen & Alice Perlmutter Ernesto & Kimberly Conde Bernadette Condesso & Cathy Drapeau Colin Cuite & Stacey Mesler Damian & Cyndi De Rosaire Michael & Kathryn Della Bitta Thomas DePetris Hal & Valery Einhorn Stephen Enriquez & Ann Patsalos-Enriquez Christian Fekete & Kimberly Baker Richard & Jane Fisher Dan Fisherman & Jennifer Clapp Roger & Louise Foucek Tessa Friedman John Galbraith & Katie Green Gerard & Joanne Galluscio Steven & Lorraine Greene Richard Grinnell & Leigh Williams Ethan & Elizabeth Gundeck Josh & Jackie Hadden Ray & Ruthie Shaw Julie O'Sullivan Robert & Hilary Hayes David & Mary Ann Silver Christina Powers Johan & Laurie Hedlund Mark Stapylton & Alisa Kwitney Emma Sears Jonathan & Barbara Heiles Mark Stier & Hope Scott-Stier Ruthie Shaw David Held & Jill Malden-Held Scott & Lucia Swartz Liz Vinogradov Anna Holder Karen Teich Barbara Wood ’78 Radley Horton & Danielle Martinelli Tamara Telberg Syed & Romana Hosain Matthew & Alicia Tether STUDENTS John & Antonia Houston Michael Tibbetts & Andrea Parent-Tibbetts Erica Enriquez ’15 Salah & Kefah Jamal Amy Tripi Tyler Lussow ’15 James & Jennifer Johnston Aaron Warshawsky & Mary Goggin Matthew Luzzi ’21 David Kaminski & Jennifer Berlind Sharr White & Evelyn Carr-White Benjamin King & Michelle Ross-King Susan Willson Donald Klybas & Caroline Danford Austin & Elizabeth Wilmerding

41 1978 PARENTS OF ALUMNI ALUMNI Peter Tucker Nicholas Abramson & Helaine Meisler

Barbara Wood 1938 Kitty Adamo & Jim Todd

Allelu L. Kurten David & Elizabeth Alexander 1982 Peter Antelyes & Leslie Dunn Thomas Brooks 1942 Jane Barber Smith

Margaret Proctor Christopher & Etsuko Bjork 1983 Sara Bragdon Gregg Miron 1945 Fred & Alice Brooks Jr. Charles Denby 1984 Thomas ’82 & Erica Brooks

Christopher Luongo Richard Chazen ’66 1946 Richard & Michele Chazkel Paul Drouilhet 1986 Bernadette Condesso & Cathy Drapeau

Peter Schalk Ian Crane & Jaye Thacker 1947

Nancy Russell James Davidson & Mary Untalan 1987 Kirk & Karen Endicott John Whelan 1949 Stephen Enriquez & Ann Patsalos-Enriquez

John M. Coulter Harriet Finkelstein 1989 Mike & Christine Foley Nadia Vinogradov 1953 Lynn Fordin

Eleanor Charwat Roger & Louise Foucek 1992

Kristen Vale-Mosack Don Fried 1955 Mary Gesek Paul Bickart 1993 Burton & Miriam Gold Deborah White Schaack Hillary Harvey Steven Gorn & Barbara Bash

Dan Greenberg & Joann Alvis 1956 1995 Shirley & Bernard Handel Susannah Eldridge Anya L. Ginandes Virginia Hart

1958 Syed & Romana Hosain 1997 J. Harrington Breed Tracy & Lucille Johnson Julia Hausman R. Huntington Breed Nader & Maria Kayal

Judah Sommer Marc Kemeny & Clare Cosslett 1998 Mary Ellen and Peter Kenny Anna-Liza Villard-Howe 1959 Frederik Kjeldsen & Lorraine Seach

Judith Komer Allelu Kurten ’38 1999

Katherine Maas Dorothy & Christopher ’84 Luongo 1961 Steve & Gaye Mallet Walter Effron 2005 Barry & Carol Meehan Erik Kiviat Colin Chazen James & Janice Monsma

Sandra Moore & James Curran 1965 2006 Sevgin & Elizabeth Oktay Gina Kaiser Amie Anderson Leonard & Sandra Opdycke Mitchell Stagg Matthew Buccelli Wes Ostertag & Neall Burger Anna Raugalis 1966 Rebecca Parish & Patrick Downes

Richard Chazen Li & Lisa Pipman Denaut 2010 Thomas & Melissa Ptacek Emma Driller-Colangelo 1967 Martin & Jeanne Puryear

Ann Parfet Leo & Tammy Reilly 2011 Shirley & Frank Rinaldi Fatima Hosain 1972 Christopher & Kim Roellke Pamela Kantarova 2012 Michael & Sara Rothman

Peter Enriquez David Santner 1973 Emma Roellke David Schalk Charles Furnival Hamilton & Barbara Scheer

2014 Mark Schlessman & Laura Graceffa 1976 Amalia Driller-Colangelo John Kraus David & Mary Ann Silver Philip Greenberg Kevin Smith & Kali Rosenblum Akif Hosain Samuel Speers & Lisa Brawley John & Beth Storyk Barbara Swanson Michael Tibbetts & Andrea Parent-Tibbetts Dean Vallas & Debra Pemstein Liz & Alex Vinogradov John Wallach & Amanda Thornton Austin & Elizabeth Wilmerding Barbara L. Wood ’78 Patricia Yenawine Peter Zimmermann

42 GRANDPARENTS FRIENDS OF PDS Theodore & Brenda Baker Clifford Dooris SPECIAL GIVING George & Phebe Banta Sr. Linda Gregorius CAPITAL PROJECTS Deborah Beck Jerry Joseph Jean Churchill Harriet Bernstein Catherine L. Monian Johan & Laurie Hedlund Milton and Barbara Bookbinder Gretchen Orendorf Kenwood Foundation Gloria Bragdon A. Marshall and Maribell Pregnall The M & T Charitable Foundation Fred & Alice Brooks Jr. Thomas and Leslie White Ernesto & Kimberly Conde TECHNOLOGY Ileen Critz CORPORATE PARTNERS ExxonMobil Corporation Edith Dabney Adams Fairacre Farms, Inc. Steve & Connie Dodd Andlynn Construction Inc. CLASS OF 2015 SENIOR PARENT GIFT Michael & Margaret Galbraith ExxonMobil Corporation To the Faculty Development Mary Gesek General Mills Box Tops for Education Endowment Fund Catherine Goldberg Poughkeepsie Day School Parents Lester & Jan Greenberg Association Jane Amsden Peter & Liz Appelson Anne Boehringer ’15 Henry & Jayne Boehringer Peter* & Elizabeth Brofman Joseph & Claudia Candido Hal & Valery Einhorn Erica Enriquez ’15 Stephen Enriquez & Ann Patsalos- Enriquez Christian Fekete & Kimberly Baker Dan Fisherman & Jennifer Clapp Noam Fisherman ’15 John Gorman & Joann Potter David Held & Jill Malden-Held Claire Houston ’15 John & Antonia Houston Daniel Kempton Jonathan & Terry Lussow Tyler Lussow ’15 Nellia Olivencia Christopher & Kim Roellke David & Mary Ann Silver Jonathan & Kim Urban John Wallach & Amanda Thornton Susan Willson Austin & Elizabeth Wilmerding Corina Zisman ’15 Craig Zisman & Jackie Katzen William & Gay Hartigan Sherman Furniture Charlotte Jones Target Corporation Michael & Cindy Kryger The Chazen Companies HONORIAL GIFTS Mortimer Malden In Honor of Leo Antelyes ’12 John & Karen Messley FOUNDATIONS, TRUSTS, DONOR Peter Antelyes & Leslie Dunn Kent & Elizabeth Miller ADVISED FUNDS Maurice & Sharon Moran Kenwood Foundation Bruce & Marsha Moskowitz Mako Foundation In Honor of Memphis & Sasha Bernstein W. Russell Pickering & Elise Quimby Poughkeepsie Day School Fund at CFHV Collins Michael & Mary Kay Poulos The M & T Charitable Foundation Harriet Bernstein Dennis & Barbara Powers Michael & Patricia Quiana In Honor of Elizabeth Brooks ’16 Martha Reid CORPORATE MATCHING GIFTS Fred & Alice Brooks Jr. Elizabeth Roellke Adobe Systems Mildred Ruttner IBM Corporation In Honor of Thomas Brooks ’82 Ronald Scheidelman & Khalida Bunnie Mobil Retiree Matching Gifts Program Fred & Alice Brooks Jr. Anna Mae Schuler Texaco Foundation JoAnn Schwartz The Educational Foundation of America In Honor of Daniel Brown ’17 Richard Schwartz Mildred Ruttner John Sullivan James Tucker In Honor of Owen Browne ’22 Adele Warshawsky William & Gay Hartigan Lucius & Adela Wilmerding

43 In Honor of Thomas Capstick ’15 In Honor of Jesse ’15 & Liam ’18 Held In Honor of Logan Reid ’18 Gloria Bragdon Mortimer Malden Martha Reid Brian & Lisa Reid In Honor of Bernadette Condesso In Honor of Laura Hicks Peter Enriquez Christopher & Natasha Brown In Honor of Ashlee Reilly ’07 Charlotte Jones Leo & Tammy Reilly In Honor of David Jordan & In Honor of Bernadette Condesso, Mary PDS Grade 5 Teachers In Honor of Fred Schmidt Ellen Kenny & Liz Vinogradov Joel & Kimberly Carpenter Richard Schwartz Stephen Enriquez & In Honor of Danielle ’16 & Ann Patsalos-Enriquez In Honor of Katrina Swanson Pulichene Alexandra ’20 Kaminski Barbara Swanson David Kaminski & Jennifer Berlind

In Honor of Julian Wiseman ’21 Barbara & Milton Bookbinder

MEMORIAL GIFTS In Memory of Anthony Buccelli Matthew Buccelli ’06 Shirley & Frank Rinaldi

In Memory of Rain Pravato Critz Martha Burns & Carol Bahruth Jonathan & Barbara Heiles Gretchen Orendorf

In Memory of Evelyn Dassaro Richard Schwartz

In Memory of Jean Duignan Elliott Schreiber & Julie O'Sullivan

In Honor of Joan Matheis In Honor of Cope Craven In Memory of George E. Furnival III Dean Vallas & Debra Pemstein Gretchen & Mark Lytle Charles Furnival

Michael & Sara Rothman In Honor of Josh ’91 & Leila ’92 Meehan In Memory of Robert Z. Finkelstein Barry & Carol Meehan In Honor of Regan Critz ’24 Virginia Hart Ileen Critz In Honor of Emma Messley ’26 In Memory of Robert Johnson ’88 In Honor of Hannah Fordin ’09 John & Karen Messley Nadia Vinogradov & Rick Carek Lynn Fordin In Honor of Jake Moore ’04 In Memory of Dr. Douglas Long In Honor of Laura Graceffa Sandra Moore & James Curran Elizabeth Roellke Clifford Dooris In Memory of Jonah Sherman Linda Gregorius In Honor of Luke Moore ’08 Martha Burns & Carol Bahruth A. Marshall & Maribell Pregnall Sandra Moore & James Curran Catherine Monian Roy Schlessman In Honor of Chloe ’14 & Remy ’18 Oktay Raymond Schwartz & Christina Powers Sevgin & Elizabeth Oktay Nevill & Karen Smythe Emma Sears & Gregg Swanzey In Honor of the PDS 80th Anniversary Thomas & Leslie White Eleanor & Martin Charwat

In Honor of PDS Faculty Bernadette Condesso & Cathy Drapeau Hal & Valery Einhorn Mark Schlessman & Laura Graceffa

In Honor of PDS Faculty and Staff Sara Bragdon Josie Holford Matthew & Alicia Tether In Honor of Arthur Heiles ’16 Maurice & Sharon Moran In Honor of PDS High School Teachers Jianfeng Liu & Hong Lin

44 In Memory of Barbara "Red" Smith Caroline Danford John & Catherine Coulter James Davidson and Mary Untalan Elizabeth Edelson In Memory of Olga & Julian Smyth Hal & Valery Einhorn Susannah Eldridge Stephen Eric Enriquez Elsah Epstein & Patrick Neri In Memory of MaryAnn Sullivan Tiggy Friedman John Sullivan Gerard & Joanne Galluscio Mary Gesek In Memory of George and Betsy White Ethan & Elizabeth Gundeck Judith Komer Sue Hart, Weichert Realtors Deborah White Schaack Johan & Laurie Hedlund Josie Holford GIFTS IN KIND Hudson Hil’s Café Hal & Valery Einhorn Jianfeng Liu and Hong Lin Goya Foods, Inc. Jaime Lozada The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company Lizzie Maya Blanca Mesler SPECIAL EVENTS Sharlene Oyagi POUGHKEEPSIE MINI MAKER FAIRE – The Paul Green Rock Academy PRESENTED BY POUGHKEEPSIE DAY Poughkeepsie Day School Camp SCHOOL Dennis and Barbara Powers Partners & Sponsors Edward and Andrea Sayago Arts Mid-Hudson Mark Stapylton & Alisa Kwitney DigitalOcean Hudson Valley 3D Make: Magazine sPOKe (formerly Poughkeepsie Bicycle Advocates) Squidwrench Vassar College

SPRING BENEFIT AUCTION Underwriters, Sponsors & Advertisers Arlington Wine & Liquor

CANSTRUCTION® JR. HUDSON VALLEY Amanda Thornton & John Wallach Bei Restaurant Group – PRESENTED BY POUGHKEEPSIE DAY Kim and John Urban Henry & Jayne Boehringer SCHOOL Liz Vinogradov Deborah Brown Corporate Partners Jeffrey Wiseman & Alice Hawkins Anthony & Courtenay Budd Caramico Radio Woodstock (WDST 100.1) Craig Zisman & Jackie Katzen Richard & Michele Chazkel The Poughkeepsie Galleria Cosimo’s Restaurant Group Edith Danby

45 It’s All About Community! Thank you to the Board of Trustees, Parent Association and all parent leaders and volunteers for bringing us together to have fun and raise funds to benefit our students and teachers! From Welcome Week to the first Deborah Brown SPRING BENEFIT AUCTION ever Poughkeepsie Mini Maker Frances Canfield Chair Jane Canfield ’21 Ann Patsalos-Enriquez Faire and Parent Talent Show, to Kimberly Conde Canstruction® JR Hudson Valley and Violet Favell ’25 Auctioneers the Spring Benefit Auction…our Laura Graceffa Ann Patsalos-Enriquez Jeanne Patsalos parents and families made a difference

in our community and beyond. Volunteers Alberto Aresi BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2014–2015 Deborah Brown Amanda Thornton, President Kimberly Conde Sharlene Oyagi, Vice President Jane Banta Fisher Johan Hedlund, Treasurer Tiggy Friedman Kim Roellke, Secretary Joanne Galluscio Lois Bailey Katie Green Melissa Beck Jackie Hadden Bronwyn Bevan Laurie Hedlund Chris Bjork Kefah Jamal Valery Einhorn Lisa Kaul Daniel Fisherman Jackie Hadden Sharlene Oyagi Mary Gesek Laurie Hedlund Deidre Sepp Elizabeth Gundeck David Held Alicia Tether Sue Hart Josie Holford PDS Class Reps: Pre-K through Grade 12 Romana Hosain Lisa Kaul Andrea Payne Darcy Kelly Student Volunteers Mark Stapylton Tami Kelly Thomas Capstick ’15 Baylee Kramer Victoria Dema ’17 Ex Officio Johnny Galbraith Kaser Gui ’18 Josie Holford, Head of School Mary Ellen Kenny Harry Liu ’15 Andrea Parent-Tibbetts, CFO Jamie Landsman Johnson Lin ’17 Elias Levey-Swain ’17 John Madelengoitia ’17 Emeriti Stan Lichens Daron McShane ’17 Freny Dalal Eve Madalengoitia Xavier Mayo ’18 Patrick Gilheany John Madalengoitia ’17 Morrow Otis ’16 Alexander Reese Steve Mallet Elias Levey-Swain ’17 Lizzie Maya Marnie McKnight-Favell CLASS OF 2015 Ariana Milan SENIOR-PARENT CLASS GIFT Sharlene Oyagi Ann Patsalos Enriquez and Eric Enriquez, Barbara Powers Chairs Christina Powers Andrea Parent-Tibbetts POUGHKEEPSIE MINI MAKER FAIRE – Judy Purcell PRESENTED BY POUGHKEEPSIE DAY Alan Schlessman ’14 SCHOOL Anastasia Schwartz ’18 Volunteers Ray Schwartz Josh Arcarola EMT-B Deidre Sepp Raffle Chair Alberto Aresi Kiki Sepp ’19 Ann Patsalos-Enriquez Jennifer Glassford The Spitters Club Martha Agresta Ryan Stier ’17 Invitation and Poster Design Carol Bahruth Alicia Tether Tia Fishler ’16 Laura Baratta Liz Vinogradov Tianyi Yu ’15 Robert Barron Raymond Walls Michelle Wolin “Many Minds, One World” Short Film Nicole Yan ’17 Ava Markel ’16

Auction Catalog Christina Powers

Mobile/Online Bidding System Larry Teich

46 Class Baskets Mimica Hyman Mimica Hyman, Welcome Back Picnic Many thanks to lower and middle school Lizzie Maya Kalista Parrish & Lisa Reid, Compass Cash parents! Yameil Nunez Alicia Tether, Stop & Shop Jeanne Patsalos Class Representatives Wine Pull Deidre Sepp Amy & Judy’s Pre-K/K , Danielle Martinelli & Many thanks to high school parents! Huda Scheidelman “Mind the Gap” Short Film Lynn’s Grade 1, Anne Messley Faculty /Staff Support Robert Barron Rachel’s Grade 1, Courtenay Budd Caramico & Carol Bahruth Lizzie Maya Michelle Martinez-Leffert Damon Banks Aydin Schwartz ’20 Brian’s Grade 2-3, Kimberly Conde Bernadette Condesso Michelle’s Grade 2-3, Radley Horton & Edward Don Fried Sayago Laura Graceffa Sue’s Grade 2-3, Suzanne Murray David Held David’s Grade 4-5, Jane Fisher Josie Holford Dorothy’s Grade 4-5, Mary Sweeney Mary Lou Hudak Lisa’s Grade 4-5, Kimberly Conde & Annie Tseng Tricia Irving Shirley’s Grade 6, Andrea Leva, Millieann Luzzi Anita Jones & Lucia Swartz Darcy Kelly Emma’s Grade 7-8, Lisa Kaul & Kalista Parrish Mary Ellen Kenny Jake’s Grade 7-8, Tessa Friedman & Katie Green Steve Mallet Karl’s Grade 7-8, Laura Baratta & Yameil Victoria Mayes Fuentes Karen Nichols Malorie’s Grade 7-8, Richard Lewit Christina Powers CANSTRUCTION® JR. HUDSON VALLEY Grade 9, Laurie Hedlund Tammy Reilly – PRESENTED BY POUGHKEEPSIE DAY Grade 10, Frances Canfield Shirley Rinaldi SCHOOL Grade 11, Alberto Aresi Andrea Parent-Tibbetts Chair Grade 12, Sara Bragdon & Ann Enriquez Wayne Toepp Christine Agro Liz Vinogradov Onsite Set-Up & Support Check In/Check Out Caidin Agro ’22 A BIG thank-you to Mimica Hyman for Mary Lou Hudak Kimberly Conde ten years of spreading joy and happiness Darcy Kelly Tami Kelly through The Smart Café and making Andrea Parent-Tibbetts PDS PARENTS ASSOCIATION spending our summers with Nicky the Executive Council PARENT TALENT SHOW Cyndi De Rosaire, Lower School Class Chair Representative Coordinator Lizzie Maya Joanne Galluscio, VP Special Events Barbara Gillman, Middle School Class Representative Coordinator; Best Practices Elizabeth Gundeck, Board of Trustees Liaison Laurie Hedlund, High School Class Representative Coordinator; Secretary Mimica Hyman, Welcoming Deidre Sepp, VP Parent Community Alicia Tether, VP Communications; Treasurer

Navigator, our beloved pen mascot, Onsite Support a new tradition! Damon Banks Victoria Mayes Kalista Parrish Christina Powers The following conventions were used in compiling these Raymond Schwartz lists of donors and volunteers: Liz Vinogradov Donors are listed using first names without titles, such as Talent Mr., Ms. or Dr. Joshua Camp Brown Event & Program Chairs Alumni are defined as students who attended PDS, Sylvia Buccelli Sara Bragdon, Used Book Fair whether or not they graduated from grade 12. The year Courtenay Budd Caramico Kimberly Conde, School Photos associated with each name designates the class with Mark Dema Kimberly Conde & Cyndi De Rosaire, which the individual would have graduated. An * indicates Sabrina Ferguson New Book Fair deceased. Joanne Galluscio Jane Fisher, Student Music Recital Chili Dinner Puzzle answer: Everyone moves over one room to the left to Laurie Hedlund Elizabeth Gundeck, Box Tops make room.

47 They won a bid to the NEPSAC (New England Preparatory School Athletics Athletic Council) tournament, beating Covenant Christian

Academy to reach the semi-finals. They played Wooster and lost Fall Sports to the powerful squad. The new PDS volleyball Boys varsity basketball ended team, coached by P.E. their season in third place in teacher Jillian Walsh, the league after making their played its inaugural way to the HVAL finals against game in fall 2014. They Storm King. They played made a strong enough a fantastic game but were showing to qualify for HVAL (Hudson Valley Athletic League) edged out 43-49. competition as a varsity team in fall 2015.

Members of the cross Each January, country team, Anya Ptacek middle and ’16 and Claudia Hinsdale high school ’17, came in first and students enjoy second in every race they ice-skating ran, including the HVAL and skiing on finals. PDS is hoping to Fridays! field a full girls team of five in the coming year. Spring Sports For the first time ever, all three PDS spring varsity sports teams – baseball, softball and Girls varsity soccer Ultimate Frisbee – played in were HVAL Tournament HVAL post-season tournaments. Champions! Ultimate Frisbee were league and tournament champions and were undefeated!

Softball placed first in the league but lost to Marvelwood in the final game

of the tournament. Baseball Boys soccer battled their way into the HVAL semi-finals, ended a great season with a something that hasn't happened since 1998! third-place league finish.

Winter Sports Basketball player Julia Roellke Squash after-school ’15 earned her 1000th career enrichment has been quite a point in an historic penalty shot popular option for students against Darrow, an amazing in grades 4–8 over the past accomplishment. The girls varsity two years. Taught by Craig basketball team were runners-up Thorpe-Clark, an Australian in the HVAL championship. squash professional and former U.S. national coach, players learned rules and safety, grip, swing, movement and footwork. 48 2016 Summer Program F Young Creative Experience F Enrichment F Coding, Programming & Gaming F Minecraft Lego F Minecraft 3D Printing F Stop-Motion Lego– Star Wars F Mindstorm Robotics

The 2016 summer program will offer even more choices, over a longer period of time than last year, which was our biggest ever. Check our website after Thanksgiving for the summer program!

49 NONPROFIT ORG U.S. POSTAGE PAID 260 Boardman Road NEWBURGH, NY Poughkeepsie, NY 12603 PERMIT NO. 44

Food Bowl ™ , Hudson Valley is a Poughkeepsie Day School community project where kids create public art out of non- perishable food items to feed the hungry and bring attention to the critical issue of hunger in the Valley. All food collected will go to regional food pantries and The Food Bank of the Hudson Valley.

Hudson Valley schools and youth organizations are invited to register teams by December 1. Visit our booth at the Poughkeepsie Mini Maker Faire at Poughkeepsie Day School on November 14 (10–4). www.foodbowlhv.com Hudson Valley Poughkeepsie Galleria Mall Public art display: March 5–11 A Poughkeepsie Day School Community Project